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the other interesting thing is that a persons perceptions of statistics and the statistics of different situations is all kind of skewed.

the first question is how did psychologists ascertain and normalize someone's perception of the chance of success. the second question is how does the system react now that we know about it.



Its psychology. Interesting as the field is, do you seriously think that that conclusion has any scientific validity?


Do you seriously imply Psychology, with all of its schools and subfields, has no scientific validity?


For the most part, yes. Interesting speech on the same: http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html




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