
11. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Logic Against Intuitions by Paul Meal
i think it's best if i'm going to just quote a passage from the book as i do sometimes to get the full flavor of what this is about in the words of the author you also get a chance to see what the writing is like so obviously it'll help you decide whether you want to get this book. So let's take a look intuitions versus formulas Paul Meal was one of my heroes from the time i read his clinical versus statistical prediction Meal reviewed the results of 20 studies that had analyzed whether clinical predictions based on the subjective impressions of trained professionals were more accurate than statistical predictions made by combining scores or ratings according to a rule. In a typical study trained counselors predicted
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