How We Know What Isn’t So

Gilovich, T. (1991). How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. Free Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1991

Link

https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/500707

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Domain-specific

• Hot hand
  • Belief in streaks can be biased, but conditioning and selection mistakes also bias tests against true effects; player heterogeneity, shot difficulty and effect size must be modeled.

Mechanisms

• Cluster Label Review Workshop
  • Its failure mode is the mirror image of that strength: humans are superb at inventing plausible stories for random groupings. A confident, well-credentialed panel can launder a spurious cluster by giving it a compelling name — the clustering illusion dressed in domain expertise.

    This sourceExplains the clustering illusion as perceiving meaningful patterns or clusters in data generated by chance.

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