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People’s judgments are biased by the ease with which examples come to mind - Daniel Kahneman
At its core, it means we confuse how easy it is to think of something with how true or likely it actually is. It's a fundamental bug in our mental software.
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The essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead - Daniel Kahneman
At its core, this is about cognitive substitution. Our brain, when stumped, cleverly (and often unconsciously) replaces a hard question with an easy one that feels *close enough*.
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An experiment is a rare opportunity to observe reality stripped of confounding influences - Daniel Kahneman
At its core, this quote means that a well-designed experiment is our one of our only chances to see cause and effect in its pure, unadulterated form.
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A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge - Daniel Kahneman
We're terrible at remembering what we used to think or know before we learned something new. Our brain constantly rewrites history to make our past selves seem smarter.