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by jm__87 3030 days ago
'Thinking Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman has an interesting bit on experience vs memory and how this affects our judgement. The two can differ quite a bit, based on the research presented in this book.
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I'm very suspicious of treating the Kahneman system 1, system 2 as any more than a hypothesis since even he admits it's a model without any biological basis. What's worse is that most of the research he cites come from studies with almost no replication.

The hot-hand fallacy is perhaps my favorite example of experimentally debunked wisdom from that book.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-hand_fallacy#Recent_resear...

This has nothing to do with system 1 vs system 2, it is what you experience vs what you remember from that experience.