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Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.

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Cancer

When you have been diagnosed with a life threatening cancer, you are going to be pr ded with the odds from every direction possible. The medical fraternity is not typically out to try and trick you into choosing one option a the other. It's like a look how irrational people are just depends upon the way in which they presented the odds. Yes, they make mistakes. People make errors. But i tell you what, if people are shown the error of their ways,. it only takes a few times for them to make the right choice given this kind of puzzle.

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