Daniel Kahneman – Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is There a Bias?
i think there's so much new ans you're saying, ti, that might not immediately occur with those words. I was talking about a specific type of critique based on understanding of the biases to which thinking is prone and the condition s under which those biases are most likely to occur. And i would like to restore the balance. Our work at firskis and mine was, in a sense, too influential. It led people to exaggerate the importance of bias in human affairs and in human thinking. But there are many other ways in which people go wrong than biases. A lot of error is random. And there is a radical underestimation of the amount of random error in people thinking....
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