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THINKING, FAST & SLOW (DANIEL KAHNEMAN) - Listening books

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The Bat and Ball Problem

Many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive incorrect answer. At less selective universities, the rate of demonstrable failure to check was in excess of 80%. The bat and ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book.

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