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Re:Re-reading Kahneman's “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by dcw303 on Monday July 04, 2016 @07:58PM (#12033644)
I found this a very frustrating read as well. The tone of the book was over-confident and in my mind the author really goes to no attempt to explain his reasoning.

I only made it as far as the probability section. I gave up after failing to understand his logic. Something about students enrolled in computer science, if Google is indicative.

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Re:Re-reading Kahneman's “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by blagswod on Monday July 04, 2016 @09:01PM (#12033837)
Interesting, that's the chapter that caused me to finally put the book down. The gist of it was: people not thoroughly trained in statistics aren't good at it.

This is hardly news. In fact, even highly intelligent people struggle with the Monty Hall problem, for instance.

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