Rationality for mortals
by Gerd Gigerenzer · first published 2008
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…extremisation, which was also brought up in Superforcasting by Gardner and Tetlock. Instead of such a discussion, I'd like highlight a book that provides the "oposite" perspective: Gerd Gigerenzer's Rationality for Mortals. Gigerenzer presents the an anti hyper-rationalist perspective for heuristics, arguing that they're not only human, but necessary and inevitable for time and compute bounded beings.
on “Heuristics that almost always work” ↗Have you read ‘Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (Evolution and Cognition)’ by Gerd Gigerenzer? Looks very interesting.
on “Doctors flunk quiz on screening-test math (2014)” ↗…there's science involved, but it will never be an _exact_ science in the sense of being able to create a perfect font or completely enumerate a set of typographical rules. [1] I think I learned this from "Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty" by Gerd Gigerenzer.
on “Five minute guide to better typography” ↗