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Comment by sandinmyjoints

3 days ago

That’s an interesting adage. Any ideas of its source?

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Dilettante_  3 days ago

It might have been in Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

  • Terr_  3 days ago

    I'm not sure, but something involving Kahneman et al. seems very plausible: The relevant term is probably "Attribute Substitution."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution

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