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The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds, Michael Lewis

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Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. The Undoing Project is about a collaboration between two men who became heroes in the university and on the battlefield -- both had important careers in the Israeli military -- and whose research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They worked together so closely that they couldn't remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter. This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind
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eng
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Large print edition.
Extent
563 pages (large print)
Contents
  • Introduction: The problem that never goes away
  • Man boobs
  • The outsider
  • The insider
  • Errors
  • The collision
  • The mind's rules
  • The rules of prediction
  • Going viral
  • Birth of the warrior psychologist
  • The isolation effect
  • The rules of undoing
  • This cloud of possibility
  • Coda: Bora-Bora
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9781410496454
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The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
Title
The undoing project
Title remainder
a friendship that changed our minds
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Michael Lewis
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Language
eng
Summary
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis's own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. The Undoing Project is about a collaboration between two men who became heroes in the university and on the battlefield -- both had important careers in the Israeli military -- and whose research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They worked together so closely that they couldn't remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter. This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind
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Lewis, Michael
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612.8/233
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illustrations
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no index present
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non fiction
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bibliography
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Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
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  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Neurosciences
  • Decision making
  • Statistical decision
  • Large type books
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Decision making
  • Neurosciences
  • Statistical decision
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The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds, Michael Lewis
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-558)
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Contents
Introduction: The problem that never goes away -- Man boobs -- The outsider -- The insider -- Errors -- The collision -- The mind's rules -- The rules of prediction -- Going viral -- Birth of the warrior psychologist -- The isolation effect -- The rules of undoing -- This cloud of possibility -- Coda: Bora-Bora
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1742282
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
Large print edition.
Extent
563 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781410496454
Lccn
2016047528
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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illustrations
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  • (Sirsi) i9781410496454
  • (OCoLC)959805508
Label
The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds, Michael Lewis
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-558)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: The problem that never goes away -- Man boobs -- The outsider -- The insider -- Errors -- The collision -- The mind's rules -- The rules of prediction -- Going viral -- Birth of the warrior psychologist -- The isolation effect -- The rules of undoing -- This cloud of possibility -- Coda: Bora-Bora
Control code
1742282
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
Large print edition.
Extent
563 pages (large print)
Form of item
large print
Isbn
9781410496454
Lccn
2016047528
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781410496454
  • (OCoLC)959805508

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