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Gone with the wind: Individual differences in heuristics and biases undermine the implication of systematic irrationality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

David C. Funder
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 funder@citrus.ucr.edu www.psych.ucr.edu/faculty/funder/RAP/RAP.htm

Abstract

The target article's finding of stable and general individual differences in solving of problems in heuristics-and-biases experiments is fundamentally subversive to the Meliorist research program's attention-getting claim that human thought is “systematically irrational.” Since some people get these problems right, studies of heuristics and biases may reduce to repeated demonstrations that difficult questions are hard to solve.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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