The chart here (bigger version below) is a reminder of how many Americans have lost their ability to think, or, more precisely, how our beliefs about our thought processes are totally erroneous. In this particular case, rank and file Trump …
Tag: Daniel Kahneman
How We Think
If it weren’t for all the senseless tragedy involved, the gun death epidemic in the U.S. would be a fascinating study of how we’ve simply lost out ability to think, or, more precisely, how our beliefs about our thought processes are …
George Will on Climate Change
A friend writes: Back on July 31, 2015 you posted about “Even the Elites Can’t Escape the Global Community, Living As It Does on One Small Planet.” You mentioned going to your next college reunion in June 2017.
Why We Can't Stop Destroying Our Planet
Here’s a wonderful article that begins with a question: Since it’s so clear that our civilization faces several different types of existential threats due to its overconsumption of finite and increasingly scarce resources, why is essentially nothing being done about …
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, behavioral economics, civilization faces existential threats, Daniel Kahneman, deviations from rationality, environment, human behavior, Jason Scorse, MAHB, Monterey Institute for International Studies, overconsumption of resources, Paul Ehrlich, public policy, Stanford University, The Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, uncontrolled human activities
