Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Amos Tversky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Israeli psychologist Amos Tversky.
Last updated on December 14, 2024.
Amos Tversky

Amos Nathan Tversky was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk.

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity. — © Amos Tversky
My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity.
It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
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