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by sandinmyjoints 347 days ago
That’s an interesting adage. Any ideas of its source?
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Dilettante_ 347 days ago
It might have been in Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow"
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Terr_ 347 days ago
I'm not sure, but something involving Kahneman et al. seems very plausible: The relevant term is probably "Attribute Substitution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution

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