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Daniel Kahneman, in his book thinking fast and slow, has a really good insight on why people in bad situations keep taking bad choices. Google "The fourfold pa
by _zamorano_ 4y ago
Daniel Kahneman, in his book thinking fast and slow, has a really good insight on why people in bad situations keep taking bad choices.
Google "The fourfold pattern". Basically, he states that there's a cognitive bias where people in situations where a poor outcome is likely to happen, tend to risk too much, and not settle for a bad (but better) outcome that what they already have.
If they kept compounding these "bad but better choices", they might have a chance.
- NiloCK 4y agoThis is detailed pretty will in the book Scarcity, which highlights similar psychological effects among people who have not enough money, not enought time, not enough prestige, not enough room for caloric intake (dieters), etc. I wish this book were more popular.
- Victerius 4y ago> not enough prestige If someone had enough money, time, etc. but not enough prestige, how would it manifest itself?
- adastra22 4y agoJust FYI, pretty much all of Thinking Fast and Slow has been caught up in the replication crisis and repudiated. I don't know about the fourfold pattern in particular.
- jyriand 4y agoCan you share your source, please.
- mkl 4y ago(Not OP) Here's one: https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/ https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-pe..., discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28917017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28917017