Noodling more generally, it's funny how people say things like this in response to findings of cognitive bias. Usually, when people come up with what might be rational explanations for what appears to be irrational behaviour, new experiments test and falsify these rational explanations. This has happened a lot since Judgement Under Uncertainty was first published; the core findings are remarkably robust.
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Date: 2009-02-03 03:43 pm (UTC)