PHI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Daniel Kahneman
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People who believe in god are more likely to reason: Atheists & agnostics are more likely to reason: Some of our deepest and most important beliefs are the result of. There"s a trolley barreling down the tracks and it will kill five people unless you pull a switch that diverts the trolley onto a different track where it will surely kill one person. Smaller samples yield extreme results more often than larger samples cause and chance we don"t expect regularities (i. e. , six girls in a row) to result from random processes. We are inclined to attribute regularities and patterns to intention. The similarity of a description to a stereotype is called: Participants in one study were asked to rank fields of specialization in the order of the probability that tom w is now a graduate student in each of these fields. When answering, most participants mistakenly ignored a crucial piece of information:
