Thinking, Fast and Slow*Major New York Times Bestseller |
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... question: Are people good intuitive statisticians? We already knew that people are good intuitive gram- marians: at age four a child effortlessly conforms to the rules of grammar as she speaks, although she has no idea that such rules ...
... questions and jointly examined our intuitive answers. Each question was a small experiment, and we carried out many experiments in a single day. We were not seriously looking for the correct answer to the statistical questions we posed ...
... question triggered a search of memory for divorced professors we knew or knew about , and that we judged the size of categories by the ease with which instances came to mind . We called this reliance on the ease of memory search the ...
... questions served as demonstrations for the reader, allowing him to recognize how his own thinking was tripped up by cognitive biases. I hope you had such an experience as you read the question about Steve the librarian, which was ...
... question that an economist would call relevant: Is Ford stock currently underpriced? Instead, he had listened to his ... question. The question that the executive faced (should I invest in Ford stock?) was difficult, but the answer ...