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t-writescode on Dec 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

A strong upvote for Thinking Fast and Slow. I think it should be required reading in school, or at least parts of it.

jgalt212 on Dec 28, 2019 [–]

Keep in mind that the findings in Chapter 4 have NOT been replicable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Replic...

t-writescode on Dec 28, 2019 | | [–]

For a book of 38 chapters, that’s not half bad!

DavidSJ on Dec 29, 2019 | | | [–]

Indeed, it's only 1/38 bad.

vowelless on Dec 28, 2019 | | | [–]

Indeed. Kahneman actually wrote a comment on the blog post that surfaced this issue:

https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...

tunesmith on Dec 28, 2019 | | [–]

(Un-replicable.)

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