“The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.”

—  Howard Raiffa

Part I, Chapter 2, Research Perspectives, p. 31.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)

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