The robustness of apparent biases about economics suggests that the judgemental anomaly is real.

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• Differences between the public's and economists' economic views do not solely reflect economists' self-serving bias. BCBryan Caplan1 Apr 2002
• Debiasing has largely failed, and that is fine, because the biases identified are experience-built heuristics that only look like biases in hindsight. GKGary Klein9 Aug 2022
• Far more probability estimates err on the over-optimistic side than the under-optimistic side. SPShane Parrish14 May 2018
• Differences between the public's and economists' positive economic views resemble judgemental anomalies in which laypeople and experts systematically disagree. BCBryan Caplan1 Apr 2002
• Samuelson's random-walk analogy for stock prices was mathematical showing-off dressed up as a claim about the real world. AGAndrew Gelman27 May 2023

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