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... intuitive statisticians? We already knew that people are good intuitive grammarians: at age four a child effortlessly conforms to the rules of grammar as she speaks, although she has no idea that such rules exist. Do people have a ...
... intuitive and rooted in the psychology of perception, from which we borrowed many ideas. We were sufficiently similar to understand each other easily, and sufficiently different to surprise each other. We developed a routine in which we ...
... temptations of life away from home. I eventually realized that the transgressions of politicians are much more likely to be reported than the transgressions of lawyers and doctors. My intuitive impression could be INTRODUCTION 7.
... intuitive thinking in various tasks—assigning probabilities to events, forecasting the future, assessing hypotheses, and estimating frequencies. In the fifth year of our collaboration, we presented our main findings in Science magazine ...
... intuitive preferences conformed to the logic of choice. Here again, as in judgment, we observed systematic biases in our own decisions, intuitive preferences that consistently violated the rules of rational choice. Five years after the ...
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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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