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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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bookshelves: psychology, non-fiction, male-author, self-development, sociology, science, economics, 21st-century, choices-decisions
Sep 30, 2018
bookshelves: psychology, non-fiction, male-author, self-development, sociology, science, economics, 21st-century, choices-decisions
I know I'm an irrational person but I didn't realize all humans are. The author used controlled experiments to come up with this conclusion. The most surprising to me was one experiment showing humans are slightly dishonest if they know they won't be caught. At least MIT and Harvard students can be a bit dishonest (and students from other prestigious colleges) because those are the people he used in most of his studies. An amusing twist is when he had the subjects read the ten commandments before the experiment and how it effected the results. Humans never fail to amaze me.
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Jul 09, 2023 04:13AM
If the constitutional hurdles could be surmounted, should the IRS be putting the Ten Commandments at the beginning of its instruction booklets.
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Dave - Ha! There would probably be a boost in the US economy. But I hope our political system never drifts that far right that the inclusion of the 10 Commandments in the IRS instruction booklet will ever appear. But it’s funny to contemplate.
