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by seu 87 days ago
There's a very interesting critique of Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow" from German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzen: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397923694_The_Legac...

I suggest everyone interested in learning how these theories emerge, and how the social sciences work, to give it a read. Also, it kind of dismantles the whole idea of System 1 and 2, which then I guess would question the theoretical foundations of this paper too.

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I've read the work, Gerd Gigerenzen criticises the approaches to scientific experiments conducted by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, and the lack of desire, to put it mildly, to properly define the terms they were introducing.

Critique to System 1 and 2 is based mostly on using System 1 and 2 to excuse the alleged deficiencies in the experiments.

I think the original article in this discussion is using "Systems 1 and 2" as intuitive and rational modes for problem-solving and interestingly enough, Gerd Gigerenzen also has a reference in this work "accuracy-effort trade-off (Payne, Bettman, and Johnson 1993): The less effort one takes, the less accurate one will be." which aligns with the broader idea of Systems 1 and 2.