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Daniel Kahneman
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Confidence and fluency are unreliable substitutes for a careful judgement process.
Kahneman gives readers a vocabulary for intuitive and deliberative thinking, framing and common judgement errors. Its pragmatic value is the design of decisions: compare options against a reference class, record assumptions and slow down where error is costly. Use the concepts to improve a process before diagnosing other people’s biases.
WTM’s judgement: a foundational decision lens whose individual research claims still deserve scrutiny. Memorable examples are not universal laws, and naming a bias does not prove it caused an outcome. Ask which safeguard would remain useful even if a favourite illustrative experiment were weaker than expected.
ONE PRACTICAL NEXT STEP
Write an estimate, a reference class and the evidence that would change the estimate before a consequential decision.
Research-based reading note: publisher description; no claim of a full-text review or an exhaustive evidence audit.
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Linked paperback ISBN 9780374533557.
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024) was a psychologist whose research with Amos Tversky transformed understanding of judgement and decision-making. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and wrote Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Official biography or website ↗Deceased author. No official personal, estate or archive social account verified from his primary university profile and memorial.
Catalogue updated: 10 October 2026. The Webflow Press page is the editable editorial record; this portal carries the launch catalogue edition.
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