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

Jun 13, 2023
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INSIGHT

Biases Shape Everyday Judgments

  • People routinely prefer labeling and simple stories to understand judgments and choices.
  • A richer vocabulary for biases (halo, availability) improves diagnosing mistakes in ourselves and others.
ANECDOTE

The Tversky Collaboration Origin

  • Kahneman describes meeting Amos Tversky in 1969 and beginning a prolific collaboration on judgment and decision research.
  • Their teamwork produced experiments revealing predictable heuristics and biases that reshaped psychology and economics.
INSIGHT

Resemblance Trumps Statistics

  • People judge individuals by resemblance to stereotypes and often ignore relevant base-rate statistics.
  • Representativeness is a simplifying heuristic that produces systematic prediction errors.
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