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Author of books at the intersection of psychology, political science, and organizational behavior including Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction and Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Co-principal investigator of The Good Judgment Project.
Classical liberal with a belief in limited government and personal responsibility. Describes himself as somewhat of a libertarian but acknowledges confusion and baggage associated with the term.
Host of Quanta Magazine's The Joy of Why podcast and previously hosted The Joy of x podcast, based on his book of the same name.
Math guy. MD at Thiel Capital. Host of The Portal
Amos Tversky (1937-1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics, law, medicine, political science, philosophy, and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky's articles, selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky's life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity, Judgment, and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice, Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.