Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Created on 2020-12-31T17:45:10-06:00

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Specialists need names for conditions to properly categorize and deal with them.

Systematic errors are known as biases.

Even professional statiticians are not good intuitive statiticians.

Researchers associated the future profession of small children by comparing them to stereotypes of professions.

Availability biases: when decision making is governed by information that is available wrt. all information that exists.

Availability biases: the transgression of a politician is more likely to be reported than other professions, which leads people to assume that politicians are more likely to commit adultery.

Scholars in a particular field share assumptions among the profession.

Chess masters see books differently than chess novices.

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