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I’m gonna go put some grapes in the microwave, THEN read this article


Oh yeah I’d second that, this book is spectacular


Thinking fast and slow had the biggest impact in changing how I think about a lot of things, epic study of how you’re predisposed to think and make decisions in a particular way. Coincidentally I read it at about the same time as freakonomics!


Would really like a second edition for that book. The replication crisis has, unfortunately not been kind to some of the things in the book.


This keeps me from reading it. Reading something that is wrong but changes the way I view the world is not something I want.


Kahneman did in fact personally respond to some of the criticisms in a blog comment [0] at https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...

HN discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228712

[0] Archive link to the original comment by Kahneman https://web.archive.org/web/20190206160415/https://replicati...


I think it can still be read, but with a more critical mind and other, recent sources. You have a valid point, though.

Would be really interesting to have Kahneman discuss the crisis in a new chapter.


Seconding fast and slow. I'm working my way through it right now. It's pretty mind blowing.


More surprising is that yahoo is #7! I might be out of touch but I can’t think of a single person that uses yahoo, maybe it might be the default homepage on my grandmas computer...


I've never seen anyone who used Yahoo too. I've seen one or two people who used Bing and even Yandex (lol) but no Yahoo.


I liked it much more when elite meant you could hack Gibsons


Is 11 people a really small sample size for a study like this?


Also, i don't understand it because I'm not a neuroscientist but are the brain networks they're talking about in the abstract of the research related to conscious thinking? I find these kind of articles so frustrating, the articles themselves imply these big dubious claims, then you try to read the research and you don't know what the fk they're talking about.


Well, if it's real random and it's experimental vs observational, then it depends on how big an error you can tolerate. Counter-intuitive fact: the minimum sample size for a T-test is two...


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