![]() ![]() (“Amos couldn’t mention Gigerenzer’s name without using the word ‘sleazeball,’ ” said UCLA professor Craig Fox, Amos’s former student.) Danny, being Danny, looked for the good in Gigerenzer’s writings. ![]() … Amos didn’t merely want to counter Gigerenzer he wanted to destroy him. … “Amos says we absolutely must do something about Gigerenzer,” recalled Danny. He did what critics sometimes do: He described the object of his scorn as he wished it to be rather than as it was. He also downplayed or ignored most of their evidence, and all of their strongest evidence. But in Danny and Amos’s view he’d ignored the usual rules of intellectual warfare, distorting their work to make them sound even more fatalistic about their fellow man than they were. Gigerenzer had taken the same angle of attack as most of their other critics. As Michael Lewis wrote in The Undoing Project: Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gerd Gigerenzer and friends wrote a series of articles critiquing Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work on heuristic and biases. ![]()
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