"There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally."
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Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and Its Applications (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1983), first paragraph
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I. J. Good
Irving John Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009) was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After World War II, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was a University Distinguished Professor in the Statistics Department at Virginia Tech.
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