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> Thinking Fast and Slow I thought a fair amount of this book was debunked in one way or another?
by growlist 7y ago
> Thinking Fast and Slow
I thought a fair amount of this book was debunked in one way or another?
- tarboreus 7y agoThought about mentioning this in the above rant. Yes, a lot of that book is debunked. No, that doesn't stop all self-help books from being based on it. It's also still worth reading, just don't take each individual claim as gospel and if you're going to excitedly incorporate any given claim into your model of how things work, have some other evidence for it or read some papers. (Though the papers you read will also be debunked before you can say "priming effect.")
- Pandabob 7y agoI'm aware of the priming studies being debunked, but what else?
- QuesnayJr 7y agoAs far as I know, that's it.
- base698 7y agoWhat was debunked? As a primarily "system 1" thinker the book reasonated with me in a profound way. It explained why if I know or Intuit a solution, say in an interview it comes out of me boundlessly like lightning, where if I have to work through a solution I struggle. I have to work back wards from my intuitive answer to explain it.
- tarboreus 7y agoMostly the priming effects, i.e. read about old people and act slower, be in a room with money symbols and be more selfish.