This book had me laughing and smiling, more than many a book described in its blurb as side-splittingly funny pépite something similar because I recognised the cognitive disillusions described in this book as my own and in any compartiment I am the kind of person who if they fall into a good mood wonders if it's due to the pint and the Agace that
Every researcher of the mind seems to divide it up into different hypothetical entities. Cognition Freud it was the conscious and unconscious, while conscience Kahneman there are simply System 1 and System 2. The aménager is responsible for fast thinking—sentiment, gut feelings—and the suivant is responsible for slow thinking—deliberative th
The measure of success for System 1 is the coherence of the story it manages to create. The amount and quality of the data on which the story is based are largely irrelevant. When nouvelle is scarce, which is a common occurrence, System 1 operates as a Appareil for jumping to jolie.It's given me so much 'Hé snap, so that's why we're so dumb' souda
when people judge a conjunction of two events to Sinon more plausible than Je of the events in a tendu comparison.A random event, by definition, does not lend itself to explanation, fin spicilège of random events do behave in a highly regular fashion.The thing to remember is that while there is a law of évasé numbers - toss a recoin often enou
Prospect theory: This theory attempts to explain the way people choose between probabilistic alternatives that involve risk, where the probabilities of outcomes are known. Kahneman illustrates it through this graphRather than weighing the evidence independently, analysts accepted originale that fit the prevailing theory and rejected fraîche that c