Thinking, Fast and Slow*Major New York Times Bestseller |
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... believe and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit from the informed opinions of others. Many of us spontaneously anticipate how friends and colleagues will ...
... believe you know what goes on in your mind , which often con- sists of one conscious thought leading in an orderly way to another . But that is not the only way the mind works , nor indeed is that the typical way . Most impressions and ...
... believe research findings based on inadequate evidence and prone to collect too few observations in our own research. The goal of our study was to examine whether other researchers suffered from the same affliction. We prepared a survey ...
... believe that he did not know what he was doing. The specific heuristics that Amos and I studied provide little help in un- derstanding how the executive came to invest in Ford stock, but a broader conception of heuristics now exists ...
... The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent INTRODUCTION 13.