Tversky was fond of describing his work as “debugging human… - Ivars Peterson

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Tversky was fond of describing his work as “debugging human intuition.”...Tversky could establish again and again the existence of mismatches between intuition and probability—between cognitive illusion and reality.

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Ivars Peterson (born 4 December 1948) is an award-winning mathematics writer.

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The theory of probability combines commonsense reasoning with calculation. It domesticates luck, making it subservient to reason.

To an increasing number of practitioners, computer simulations rooted in mathematics represent a third way of doing science, alongside theory and experiment.

The aim of science is to reduce the scope of chance.

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