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Re:The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail by dmazin on Friday January 06, 2012 @12:08AM (#3432058)
I don't understand. Kahneman's whole thing is showing that it's wrong to assume that humans are rational actors. Your second paragraph is exactly the point - the choices are not equivalent to humans.
Re:The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail by roel_v on Friday January 06, 2012 @04:17AM (#3432628)
Humans are rational, just not in the 'mathematically rational' sense. I.e., not just using statistics and probabilities to make decisions. As long as decision-making involves a process (even if it's unconscious) of trade-offs to optimize total utility, it's still rational (well one can debate if should be called 'rational' or have some qualifier attached to it, but then it becomes a definition question, a rather boring one).