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I was just about to embark on "Thinking, Fast and Slow" as my next commuting audio book. Ought I not to bother?
by hanoz 9y ago
I was just about to embark on "Thinking, Fast and Slow" as my next commuting audio book. Ought I not to bother?
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- kyberias 9y agoYou should definitely bother.
- scranglis 9y agoHonestly, it only gets richer in the context of this comment from Kahneman. The core of the book (parts III and IV) don't rely on priming or other small N studies.
- justin66 9y ago> Ought I not to bother? Does the act of intellectual honesty displayed on that blog, and the concomitant discovery that the author is a fallible human being, make you more or less inclined to read a work that was rather widely pronounced to be brilliant?
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- ubernostrum 9y agoSure, but be prepared to be skeptical. A lot of Kahneman's work rests on these kinds of studies, or on things that, on reflection, call to mind this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/169/ https://xkcd.com/169/ That is, they involve questions which were designed to communicate one thing while secretly "really asking about" another thing, so that the questioner could then shout "Ah-HA! Your biases caused you to misinterpret that!"
- Angostura 9y agoThis question is asked at the bottom of the linked comments, with an interesting answer from the blog author.
- Jach 9y agoI'd say yes. And/or go for his earlier more scientifically formatted Judgment Under Uncertainty, not sure if that's been put into audio form though...
- feeboo 9y agoIt is a great book I'd say.