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It is unfortunate that Thinking Fast and Slow has received some negative feedback over the years, mostly due to questionable sources and conclusions. https://r
by troughway 7y ago
It is unfortunate that Thinking Fast and Slow has received some negative feedback over the years, mostly due to questionable sources and conclusions.
https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-underpowered-studies-nobel-prize-winner-admits-mistakes/ https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
- hgibbs 7y agoWhy is it unfortunate?
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoI am guessing he means it is unfortunate because it was considered a good book for critical thinking but over time people have come to realize a lot of its studies, reasoning, and arguments are flawed - but many people have already read the book without knowing that. I've never read the book, so I don't have an opinion on it.
- soledades 7y agoThe link you supplied only affects a single chapter in the book, but your phrasing suggests there is more to this story...
- amortize 7y agoI believe Daniel Kahnemann was asked about this in his interview to Farnam Street: https://fs.blog/daniel-kahneman/ https://fs.blog/daniel-kahneman/ It was refreshing how open he was to accepting that his research, even decades after its original publication, could have lapses and errors. Research, after all, builds on corpus of knowledge existing at the time, and we should expect corrections as the underlying base shifts & corrects itself.
- kashyapc 7y agoBe careful, it's only the priming-related chapter (called 'The Associative Machine' in the book) that put "too much faith in underpowered studies". Not the entire book! Take six months to slow-read it. The book is a synthesis of forty years of Kahneman's research and his collaboration with his late colleague, Tversky. A range of topics are covered; it still absolutely merits reading.