Josh Davis's Reviews > Thinking, Fast and Slow

What a painful read. I was absolutely intrigued by the premise and was amazed at the love it has received. I fully expected to like/enjoy this book. I'm a big fan of Statistics so I really wanted to see how humans handle statistics naturally.

But I didn't. I felt that this review summarized it the best: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Every page reminded me why I hate Psychology as a field; it is just a soft science that needs to be trumped by an actual "hard" science like Neuroscience.

It was frustrating how Kahneman would present a study in which two other Psychologists would ask two questions to 100 participants and then offer a complete analysis of how this was a profound illustration in the faults in human thinking. As if the faults that he was describing or possibly even ones that haven't been discovered yet don't have a single affect on his thinking.

I'll end with what John said in the previously linked to review: "Thank God this ordeal is over."