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... biases (systematic errors) in their predictions. On another occasion, Amos and I wondered about the rate of divorce ... bias in judgments. For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among ...
... Biases.” It described the simplifying shortcuts of intuitive thinking and explained some 20 biases as manifestations of these heuristics—and also as demonstrations of the role of heuristics in judgment. Historians of science have often ...
... biases” outside psychology was an incidental feature of our work: we almost always included in our articles the full text of the questions we had asked ourselves and our respondents. These questions served as demonstrations for the ...
... biases in our own decisions, intuitive preferences that consistently violated the rules of rational choice. Five years after the Science ar- ticle, we published “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk,” a theory of choice ...
... biases, however, systematic errors that it is prone to make in specified circumstances. As we shall see, it sometimes answers easier questions than the one it was asked, and it has little understanding of logic and statistics. One ...