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The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
published: 2016, read: 1/9/22
368 pages, genre: Biography
rating: 7.75/10, normalized: 7.5/10
0.451σ better than average
1.101σ or 0.733/10 better than average in Biography genre
1σ or 0.375/10 better than average by Michael Lewis
Fantastic biography of Tversky and Kahneman. Really really fascinating stuff detailing their dissimilar personalities, friendship, and the impact they had on modernity. Bummer about the replication crisis tho
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https://www.murphyandhislaw.com/blog/extensional-vs-intuitive
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https://www.murphyandhislaw.com/blog/research-is-false
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