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Re:The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail by Jach on Friday January 06, 2012 @05:22AM (#3432745)
What Uhrrr is saying is that prob(Person is an engineer | Named Jack and has Jack's description and initial 30/70 ratio) > prob(Person is an engineer | 30/70 ratio)=30%. I think the article goofed on that question too. I'd rather have seen an illustration of the conjunction bias, which is similar. Given Jack's description, what's more probable: Jack is a lawyer, or Jack is a lawyer who likes classical music. (The first one, but people overwhelmingly pick the second one.)

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