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> Thinking, Fast and Slow: Really should have been subtitled The Ludic Fallacy Run Amok. Recently I read Blink by Malcom Gladwell (somewhat recommend) and I fi
by 77pt77 8y ago
> Thinking, Fast and Slow: Really should have been subtitled The Ludic Fallacy Run Amok.
Recently I read Blink by Malcom Gladwell (somewhat recommend) and I finally understood why I hated Thinking, Fast and Slow so much.
Gladwell mentions a concept called thin-sliccing [1]. I finally had a term to describe my feelings towards that book. If you pay attention to the beginning you get a pretty accurate idea of just how bad the book really is overall.
Given the book's subject I find the whole thing deliciously ironic.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-slicing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-slicing
- maire 8y agoI just finished reading the Undoing Project which is a biography of Kahneman and Tversky. I realized that Kahneman and Tversky's conclusions seem the opposite of Gladwell's Blink which I read many years ago. I need to go back and read Blink again to see what I really think.
- 77pt77 8y agoBlink is riddled with problems (as Gladwell seems to sometimes admit) but IMHO is still a far more honnest book than TFS.