I liked this two-liner from historian Niall Ferguson in yesterday’s Observer:
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It’s a miracle that we get anything right.
If you run through this Wikipedia [...]
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