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Drawing on Paul Meehl's landmark survey, he reports that across dozens of studies comparing clinical judgment with…","datePublished":"2025-12-17T13:36:27Z","dateModified":"2026-06-04T14:51:11Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/chapter-22-expert-intuition-when-can-we-trust-it/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/chapter-22-expert-intuition-when-can-we-trust-it/","name":"Expert Intuition: When Can We Trust It?","position":22,"wordCount":464,"timeRequired":"PT2M","abstract":"Kahneman tackles the apparent contradiction between his skepticism about expert judgment and the obvious reality that some experts have genuine, near-magical intuition. 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Bernoulli solved a famous puzzle by proposing that people value not money itself but its psychological utility, which diminishes…","datePublished":"2025-12-17T13:36:27Z","dateModified":"2026-06-04T14:57:23Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/chapter-26-prospect-theory/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/chapter-26-prospect-theory/","name":"Prospect Theory","position":26,"wordCount":491,"timeRequired":"PT2M","abstract":"Kahneman presents prospect theory, the work with Amos Tversky that earned the Nobel Prize and supplied the reference point Bernoulli's model lacked. 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People do not multiply outcomes by their objective odds; they respond to a distorted weighting in which some probabilities count for more than they should and others for less.","datePublished":"2025-12-17T13:36:27Z","dateModified":"2026-06-04T14:57:23Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/chapter-30-rare-events/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow/chapter-30-rare-events/","name":"Rare Events","position":30,"wordCount":499,"timeRequired":"PT2M","abstract":"Kahneman examines our troubled handling of rare events, which we manage to both overweight and neglect depending on how they come to mind. 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