The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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Daniel kahneman & amos tversky is a biography of the two psychologists. The book focuses on a famous partnership between psychologists daniel kahnman and amos tverky that revolutionized many aspects of psychological science and economics. Lewis bl... Read More

Lewis more comprehensively outlines how their take on psychology has so profoundly affected the discipline of economically-rational (or not so rational) man. Lewis writes in a moving passage.

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There is precious little treatment of the subject of the two protagonists' research and academic pursuit around which their 'partnership' was developed. The two protagonists are israeli academics obsessed with academic experiments that in my view lead... Read More

Lewis seems to have taken the approach of compiling hundreds or thousands of anecdotes given to him by people with no objectivity. The ideas developed by tversky and kahneman are scientifically significant but rather unintriquing.

The book repeats its unquestioning celebration of questionable geniuses. The redeeming quality of the book is that some of the cognitive biases jump of the page with new examples.

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Quality

I am impressed with the depth and perspective he was able to attain while narrating many ordinary experiences of these great thinkers.

I've appreciated everything i've read by lewis, whether i was familiar with the subject or not.

The first 4 chapters are so tediously full of irrelevant details, and have imo nothing to do with the topic (tversky and kahnem... Read More

I’m a mathematician an i got bored with the math

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I listened to thinking fast and slow quite a while ago.

I had tried, and failed, to get through “thinking fast and slow”.

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Fascinating character(s) study that also gives a layman’s overview of the revolution they led.

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This product had a total of 4,952 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 1 2023.