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... expected, we found that our expert colleagues, like us, greatly exaggerated the likelihood that the original result of an experiment would be successfully replicated even with a small sample. They also gave very poor advice to a ...
... expected respondents to exaggerate the frequency of letters appearing in the first position—even those letters (such as K, L, N, R, V) which in fact occur more frequently in the third position. Here again, the reliance on a heuristic ...
... expected, and it remains one of the most highly cited works in social science (more than three hundred scholarly articles referred to it in 2010). Scholars in other disciplines found it useful, and the ideas of heuristics and biases ...
... The reaction to our work was not uniformly positive. In particular, our focus on biases was criticized as suggesting an unfairly negative view ofthe mind. As expected in normal science, some investigators refined our INTRODUCTION 9.
Daniel Kahneman. mind. As expected in normal science, some investigators refined our ideas and others offered plausible alternatives. By and large, though, the idea that our minds are susceptible to systematic errors is now generally ...
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| Title | Thinking, Fast and Slow |
| Author | Daniel Kahneman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1429969350, 9781429969352 |
| Length | 512 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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