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Bezig met laden... The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (origineel 2016; editie 2017)door Michael Lewis (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkThe Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds door Michael Lewis (2016)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. In het verhaal van Michael Lewis komt de Tversky topt leven die ik tot dusverre alleen maar kende als de overleden compaan van Kahnemann. Leest heerlijk weg, een must voor Kahnemann-liefhebbers. En ook een beetje onwaarschijnlijk over de top, zo hier en daar. En heel raar: de vrouwen van Kahneman en Tversky, en vrouwen in het algemeen in dit boek, trouwens, zijn alleen maar decor, bijna afwezig, ( )
Lewis is the ideal teller of the story. [...] But he is also a vastly better raconteur than most other writers playing the explication game. You laugh when you read his books. You see his protagonists in three dimensions — deeply likable, but also flawed, just like most of your friends and family. Is herverteld inInspireerde
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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