"There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases."
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Ch. 15, "Causes trump statistics" p. 174.
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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (March 5, 1934 β March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist. He shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Vernon L. Smith. Kahneman is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology. Latterly, he was professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.
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