With the debunking of "Thinking fast, and slow" this branch of psychology has hopefully run its course.
With the debunking of "Thinking fast, and slow" this branch of psychology has hopefully run its course.
> It is likely that Kahneman’s book, or at least some of his chapters, would be very different from the actual book, if it had been written just a few years later. However, in 2011 most psychologists believed that most published results in their journals can be trusted. [...]
> Kahneman also started to wonder whether some of the results that he used in his book were real. A major concern was that implicit priming results might not be replicable. [...]
Anyways, just google "thinking fast and slow replication crisis" to get a bunch of information about this topic.
So many of the studies concluded that the general population is unable to reason about trivial problems involving likelihood. However, when given more context about what's being asked, they absolutely can.