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"They had a rule of thumb, he explains: they would study no specific example of human idiocy or irrationality unless they first detected it in themselves."

God I love these guys.



Also love this passage:

“Most people after they win the Nobel Prize just want to go play golf,” said Eldar Shafir, a professor of psychology at Princeton and a disciple of Amos Tversky’s. “Danny’s busy trying to disprove his own theories that led to the prize. It’s beautiful, really.”

It shows amazing intellectual honesty.




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