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stan2long's review against another edition
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
The title refers to 2 different ways that most people think. The fast is our quick reaction, simple reasoning, and intuition. The slow is our deliberate reasoning. Book describes many carefully crafted, but simple experiments that bring out the differences in patterns of behavioral psychology. The “fast” thinking is vulnerable to subliminal cues that we don’t consciously notice. The “slow” is rather lazy in most people. Covers many aspects: Stocks and investing. Avoiding danger. Subtle influences on voting. Mood and Well-being. Friendships. Rush to judgements. Book is ideal for those in sociology, Econ, Psych, Marketing, MBA. For all, because we deal with people.
laurenoh's review
4.0
I finally finished!!! Really interesting, really dense, really glad I read it, really glad I'm done.
cametoconquer's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
4.25
If you are pursuing any semi-serious econ studies, read this book. And better read it early rather than late. A great primer on flaws in the rationality concept. The rest of the book is also quite interesting on showing how good or bad our default thinking is.
The only reason I'm taking off a star is because a lot of the middle part was quite boring to me as it was going over stuff I know very well in really basic terms. It's not a ding against the book in general, just for those who are very familiar with the topics.
The last bit about memory and life could be expanded with the addition of future discounting.
P.s. I was in the middle of the book when the author passed away, definitely made the reading experience more poignant afterwards.
The only reason I'm taking off a star is because a lot of the middle part was quite boring to me as it was going over stuff I know very well in really basic terms. It's not a ding against the book in general, just for those who are very familiar with the topics.
The last bit about memory and life could be expanded with the addition of future discounting.
P.s. I was in the middle of the book when the author passed away, definitely made the reading experience more poignant afterwards.
verregnet's review against another edition
4.0
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Wie es in meinem Gehirn so gut wie jedes Mal aussah, wenn ich zu diesem Buch gegriffen habe:
Wie es in meinem Gehirn so gut wie jedes Mal aussah, wenn ich zu diesem Buch gegriffen habe:
lei15's review
informative
slow-paced
2.5
At the beginning was like quite informative but after like 11-12 chapters it became too generic and the examples many of them I already knew it from somewhere else or something similar about what the author was saying therefore it felt like a waste of time and the Bernoulli part I was like hopping to go more into math with probability but yeah it was like a psychological book about the human mind.
its_a_w's review
4.0
Kahneman stressed the extreme importance of the relationship he had with his fellow researcher Amos Tversky; Kahneman emphasized how lucky he and Amos were to work together in terms of their thinking/working styles. Everyone could use an Amos in their line of work...