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Gerd Gigerenzer on Gut Feelings

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The Bias Biases in Behavioral Economics

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Nudging is based on a certain group of psychologists and behavioral economists who want to point out that everyone else is somehow stupid. I've written a paper called the Bias Bias in behavioral economics that is the tendency to find biases even if they're done. And it would be well done to realize that people aren't so stupid, yes. But most people, they're not smart enough to become risk literate. It's unrealistic. We have to help them.

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