LimJianYang
Psychology

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

#psychology#book#biases

I’ve read the earlier parts of the book before I started this blog, but I will get to those as well. For now, I’ll be starting from Chapter 11.

Chapter 11: Anchors

Chapter 12: The Science of Availability

Chapter 13: Availability, Emotion, and Risk

The affect heuristic simplifies our lives by creating a world that is much tidier than reality.

Chapter 14: Tom W’s Specialty

You should not let yourself believe whatever comes to your mind. To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability.

  1. Anchor your judgement of the probability of an outcome on a plausible base rate.
  2. Question the diagnosticity of your evidence.
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