On: Re-reading Kahneman's “Thinking, Fast and Slow”

[dcw303]

I found this a very frustrating read as well. The tone of the book was over-confident and in my mind the author really goes to no attempt to explain his reasoning.

I only made it as far as the probability section. I gave up after failing to understand his logic. Something about students enrolled in computer science, if Google is indicative.

[blagswod → dcw303]

Interesting, that's the chapter that caused me to finally put the book down. The gist of it was: people not thoroughly trained in statistics aren't good at it.

This is hardly news. In fact, even highly intelligent people struggle with the Monty Hall problem, for instance.