Why What Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Panic: Spreading "risk literacy," by Gerd Gigerenzer (the cognitive psychologist who has worked to enhance statistical reasoning, and who is the main scientific critic of Kahneman & Tversky's "heuristics & biases").https://prosyn.org/Lb5UTJ2
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Replying to @sapinker
With all due respect to Gerd, it's hard to see Italy or Iran as an example of people over-reacting too early to a minor risk that proved to be overblown. Kinda the opposite IMHO.
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Replying to @thechristopher0 @sapinker
Taleb doesn't understand Pinker.
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I have no idea what Taleb thinks, and don't care tbh.
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