The Nature of Human Rationality

Stanovich argues that all of the errors in these experiments have to be performance errors. That's how we come up with a normative theory. It shows how we can be the source of it and how we're ultimately capable of it, but how we can nevertheless, a lot of the time, fail to meet it. So what I want to show you next time is what's right about that argument and what's deeply wrong about that argument. How Stanovich and the work of Stanovich and Russ reply to this argument in a really brilliant way. And what it's going to show us, again, about the nature of human rationality.