Skepticism of Rationality
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* [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029117062/critiquesofliber How We Know What Isn't So : The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life] by Thomas Gilovich | * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029117062/critiquesofliber How We Know What Isn't So : The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life] by Thomas Gilovich | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047115962X/critiquesofliber Inevitable Illusions : How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds] by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini | * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047115962X/critiquesofliber Inevitable Illusions : How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds] by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini | ||
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For example, the first book describes some very simple methods of making judgements that, seem to be used by humans, require very little information, require very little calculation, and perform comparably to very sophisticated regressions in certain common sorts of environments. Interestingly, some of these are non-monotonic, ie. given the same data but reordered, some of the heuristics can give diffferent answers (because stopping rules are triggered before all the data is processed.) | For example, the first book describes some very simple methods of making judgements that, seem to be used by humans, require very little information, require very little calculation, and perform comparably to very sophisticated regressions in certain common sorts of environments. Interestingly, some of these are non-monotonic, ie. given the same data but reordered, some of the heuristics can give diffferent answers (because stopping rules are triggered before all the data is processed.) | ||
