In You Are Not So Smart, David McRaney lays out in entertaining detail four dozen of the ways we trick ourselves every day
THE idea that much of our instinctive decision-making is faulty was first put forward in the 1970s by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who showed in a series of seminal papers that the rules of thumb people use to make judgements often lead them badly astray. Since then, hundreds of popular psychology books have attempted to explore this shortfall in human intelligence and how we might counter it, that number increasing exponentially over the past five…
