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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

by Michael Lewis
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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Why do so many people base their decisions on intuition, not data? Michael Lewis looks at the findings of two Israeli psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose work on decision making and judgement showed repeatedly that humans are predisposed to irrationality. A fascinating look at how and why we make the decisions we do. Recommended By Mary Jo S., Powells.com

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How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.

The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield — both had important careers in the Israeli military — and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn’t remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter.

This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind.

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Michael Lewis, is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and Flash Boys. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

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writermala , April 14, 2017 (view all comments by writermala)
This book is for the most part a treatise on Behavioral Psychology (Behavioral Economics?) I would add though that a good bit of the book deals with the behaviour of Amos Tvesky and Daniel Kahneman and their relationship as co-researchers. The author used this friendship to demonstrate how the human mind indulges in fallacious 'reasoning' and I must confess that even as a Math student I fell for some of the traps. I think the relationship between Danny and Amos added a degree of humanity to what could have otherwise been a dry subject. As Danny pointed out it was as though, "we were sharing a mind." It is we who benefited from this partnership as the subheading says it was a friendship that changed our minds.. Though Danny may have won the Nobel Prize it was Amos who charmed me with his pithy statements like the one on Artificial Intelligence - We study natural stupidity instead of artificial intelligence.

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