Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahnemanis an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth5 March 1934
CountryIsrael
Daniel Kahneman quotes about
numbers facts would-be
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
mistake opportunity two
To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.
mistake feedback expertise
True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
evolution quotations
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
use-of-time way use
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
mistake book people
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.
heuristics shortcuts produce
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
loneliness emotional people
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
mistake mean people
Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.