What Daniel Kahneman thinks about humility
Psychologist and Nobel laureate (1934 to 2024); shared the 2002 Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for integrating psychological research into economics; with Amos Tversky, developed prospect theory and the study of heuristics and biases.
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10 dated positions, c. 2002–2003 to 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Daniel Kahneman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI thought that you had to accept it because that was published evidence and and I should have blamed myself for having been a big gullible that as I should have known that you can publish things even if they're not true
↗Daniel Kahneman | The Knowledge Project #68youtube.com 11th of 12 in this recording
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Their wordswe have no way of calibrating ourselves so that makes us wildly overconfident about what we know and reluctant to accept that we may be wrong
↗Daniel Kahneman | The Knowledge Project #68youtube.com 12th of 12 in this recording
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Their wordsOur comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
↗Thinking, Fast and Slow (Doubleday Canada, 2011)archive.org All 15 from this book
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Their wordsThe premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.
↗Thinking, Fast and Slow (Doubleday Canada, 2011)archive.org All 15 from this book
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Their wordsThe illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
↗Thinking, Fast and Slow (Doubleday Canada, 2011)archive.org All 15 from this book
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Their wordswe can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
↗Thinking, Fast and Slow (Doubleday Canada, 2011)archive.org All 15 from this book
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Their wordsWe are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
↗Thinking, Fast and Slow (Doubleday Canada, 2011)archive.org All 15 from this book
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Their wordsWe are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
↗Thinking, Fast and Slow (Doubleday Canada, 2011)archive.org All 15 from this book
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Their wordsIt is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously
↗Thinking, Fast and Slow (Doubleday Canada, 2011)archive.org All 15 from this book
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Their wordsBoth as a participant and as a reader I have been appalled by the absurdly adversarial nature of these exchanges, in which hardly anyone ever admits an error or acknowledges learning anything from the other.
↗Daniel Kahneman – Biographical, Part 2: Eulogy for Amos Tversky (June 5, 1996)nobelprize.org 5th of 6 in this piece