Thinking fast, slow, and not at all: System 3 jumps the shark

Post by anitil » Mon, May 24, 2021, 11:59 PM UTC

leephillips wrote: post #8

belter wrote: post #6

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You mean the same Kahneman who got: - A Nobel Prize in Economics. - Whose book has almost 20,000 reviews with an average of almost 5 stars. - Whose book was winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012 and then ... got most of the findings undermined by this blog analysis: "Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails" https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstru…

Yes, that one. You exaggerate when you say that “most” of the book’s findings were undermined, but a good chunk of them were, including most of the principal findings of one of the chapters. And note that Kahneman had the integrity and objectivity to accept that he had been taken in by some non-replicable results, and has been totally clear, honest, and straightforward about what results that he described in his book…

Post by stevenguh » Tue, May 25, 2021, 7:59 AM UTC

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faeriechangling wrote: post #7

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He's a psychologist who wrote his book prior to the replication crisis in social psychology. I read "Thinking fast and slow" with a companion piece that detailed the most flawed parts of the book. I read that blog post before I read the book. There's basically no psychology you can read without some degree of BS in them so I love reading books which have already been thoroughly scrutinized. Some chapters were very we…

Mind sharing that companion piece, please?