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> ever since Kahneman […] have had some of their theories get discredited Could you elaborate?
by codethief 3y ago
> ever since Kahneman […] have had some of their theories get discredited
Could you elaborate?
- voiceblue 3y agohttps://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/ https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-pe...
- achrono 3y ago[1] below goes into detail on one of the topics, [2] is a less technical / more journalistic take. Essentially Kahneman ended up being super confident ("disbelief is not an option" he said) about the findings he cited, some of which have been shown to suffer from lack of rigor. If you're wondering "well, just some of them right?" I will ask you to ponder for a minute over the fact that this is not supposed to be some impulse aisle magazine article but a book applied epistemology ("behavioural economics" is to me just what gave this and related books some sales wheels). [1] 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... [2] https://slate.com/technology/2016/12/kahneman-and-tversky-researched-the-science-of-error-and-still-made-errors.html https://slate.com/technology/2016/12/kahneman-and-tversky-re....