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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow

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How Do We Get a GPA?

We have immediate standards, you know, for many traits when we're familiar with them that enable us to perform the judgment automatically. So in a whole set of situations, we ask ourselves questions and we come up with the answer to a simpler question. It comes up automatically through an associative process. We don't answer any old question. There must be a connection between the two. Pre-cautiousness, intelligence, GPA, they belong to the same context and we match. This is part of the machinery, the associative machinery, and it gets used in answering questions that were not asked.

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