Autumn Flagg Professor Drown ENG 122 November 12, 2019 No one wants to make bad judgements but everyone does. Most people don’t know why we make bad judgements. Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist and economist who has these answers. Kahneman tells his readers about making bad judgements and why we make them. He explains that there are cognitive fallacies which are things in your thinking that are not right, and this causes us to make bad judgements. He talks about…
Autumn Flagg Professor Drown ENG 122 November 12, 2019 Kahneman tells his readers about making bad judgements and different types of cognitive fallacies that affect our daily lives. He talks about different cognitive fallacies in which we make bad judgements. Some of these fallacies include the illusion of validity, WYSIATI, being blind to your own blindness, and overconfidence. More specific to this story are the illusion of validity and WYSIATI. If you take a minute to stop and think you…
Autumn Flagg Eric Drown ENG 122 November 12, 2019 Kahneman tells his readers about making bad judgements and different types of cognitive fallacies that affect our daily lives. If you take a minute to stop and think you will realize that many of these fallacies are present in your life. This summer I met a new friend named Mat. Mat and I became pretty close in a short amount of time. We had lots of fires at his house with…
Overall it is important to make good judgements because some of the things that we have to make choices on can make a big impact on our lives. I think that Kahnemen along with my friend Mat both have very good examples of why we should be making good judgements versus bad judgments. Although many of the choices that we have to make in our life may be very small and may not have a very big impact on anyone…
In my eyes, I believe that the fallacy that Mat fell for was WYSIATI. He saw this person and immediately had a story in his own mind about him and about how he thought he was better, bigger, stronger. He was overconfident and whether he knew it or not, it put him in a bad position. In Kahnamen’s article, he points out that they “had made up a story from the little we knew but had now way to allow…
In Kahnamen’s article “Don’t Blink! The Hazards of confidence”, he talks about different types of fallacies that lead us to believe certain things. A few of these cognitive fallacies include the illusion of validity, and WYSIATS. These fallacies tend to lead us to believe things that either we shouldn’t believe or that are not true. One example of this is being over confident. In the article, Kahneman talks about why we make bad judgments. A cognitive fallacy is something in…
