A Magician’s Best Trick: Revealing a Basic Human Bias
I just finished reading "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Kahneman. He goes into great detail about our various cognitive biases, and how they constantly lead us astray. The most fascinating insight is how they still lead experienced statisticians astray in the same way, and even when these biases are pointed out to them! The mistakes keep coming.<p>We're not half as intelligent and rational as we believe we are.