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A store owner does a marketing survey to find out what kind of music customers might like. The narrative is that he turns on a mind control device that makes yo

A store owner does a marketing survey to find out what kind of music customers might like. The narrative is that he turns on a mind control device that makes you buy 5% more. With the debunking of "Thinking fast, and slow" this branch of psychology has hopefully run its course.

selectodude 3y ago
I assure you behavioral economics has not run its course.
- bsdpufferfish 3y ago
  That's pretty broad. I am referring to the style of analysis that heavily attributes slight environmental priming over all others factors (character, education, religion, mood, etc).
T3OU-736 3y ago
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" has been debunked? Could you provide a bit more context?
- Strilanc 3y ago
  "Thinking, Fast and Slow" was written before the replication crisis was found. I wouldn't call it "debunked", but some of the research it used didn't replicate. For example, see 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... : > It is likely that Kahneman’s book, or at least some of his chapters, would be very different from the actual book, if it had been written just a few years later. However, in 2011 most psychologists believed that most published results in their journals can be trusted. [...] > Kahneman also started to wonder whether some of the results that he used in his book were real. A major concern was that implicit priming results might not be replicable. [...] Anyways, just google "thinking fast and slow replication crisis" to get a bunch of information about this topic.
- bsdpufferfish 3y ago
  I don't have links handy but the gist of it is that regular people do not automatically interpret questions asked of them in a technical manner (carefully parsing AND and OR logically), but instead try to intuit the asker's intent based on context. So many of the studies concluded that the general population is unable to reason about trivial problems involving likelihood. However, when given more context about what's being asked, they absolutely can.

selectodude 3y ago

I assure you behavioral economics has not run its course.

bsdpufferfish 3y ago
That's pretty broad. I am referring to the style of analysis that heavily attributes slight environmental priming over all others factors (character, education, religion, mood, etc).

T3OU-736 3y ago

"Thinking, Fast and Slow" has been debunked? Could you provide a bit more context?

Strilanc 3y ago
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" was written before the replication crisis was found. I wouldn't call it "debunked", but some of the research it used didn't replicate. For example, see 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... : > It is likely that Kahneman’s book, or at least some of his chapters, would be very different from the actual book, if it had been written just a few years later. However, in 2011 most psychologists believed that most published results in their journals can be trusted. [...] > Kahneman also started to wonder whether some of the results that he used in his book were real. A major concern was that implicit priming results might not be replicable. [...] Anyways, just google "thinking fast and slow replication crisis" to get a bunch of information about this topic.
bsdpufferfish 3y ago
I don't have links handy but the gist of it is that regular people do not automatically interpret questions asked of them in a technical manner (carefully parsing AND and OR logically), but instead try to intuit the asker's intent based on context. So many of the studies concluded that the general population is unable to reason about trivial problems involving likelihood. However, when given more context about what's being asked, they absolutely can.