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I was just listening to the audiobook “Thinking Fast & Slow” a few hours ago which references this study and specifically notes that the researchers couldn’t find any other factors and that the order of the prisoners review was random. Weird discrepancy.

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I liked "Thinking Fast and Slow", but would recommend "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" above it in this space, as better bang for the buck (wrt time investment / value derived).

FYI regarding that book: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...

It would be great if he would publish an amended second edition - unless he already has.

On that page he wrote:

> I am still attached to every study that I cited, and have not unbelieved them, to use Daniel Gilbert’s phrase. I would be happy to see each of them replicated in a large sample. The lesson I have learned, however, is that authors who review a field should be wary of using memorable results of underpowered studies as evidence for their claims.

So it sounds like stands by the claims in the book. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what would be in a second edition.

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