When we were eventually exposed to the outside view...
October 30 2012, 3:00 AM
This is a common pattern: people who have information about an individual case rarely feel the need to know the statistics of the class to which the case belongs. When we were eventually exposed to the outside view, we collectively ignored it.
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow (Chapter 23)
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