Books

What’s one book if everyone read and understood the same way you do, the world would significantly improve?

I would have agreed with this if it hadn’t been so resoundingly undermined by replication issues.

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it was?! i knew there was a replication crisis in psychology but was under the impression the kahneman/tversky papers remained relatively unscathed due to the robustness of their study designs

@eddy ah fuck you're right: https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/ tl;dr: of the 13 chapters that reference empirical results only 6 have an "r-index" above 50 (<50 implies <50% chance of replication). need to update my priors

This was devastating for me when I found out a few years ago. Had been an impactful book!

haven’t read it yet (it’s one of those books you hear summarised so many times it keeps getting subsumed)

is it still worth it?