Got a nice honorable mention from Experimental History🐐

These price comparisons are getting out of control

Newly published follow-up article to the #BehavioralScience framework tier list series I've been doing the past few months. Curious to hear your thoughts!

open.substack.com/pub/jtpeters...

Is that the memory analysis? When I presented Kahneman with an early form of my above arguments, he mentioned it.

Kahneman thought the above arguments sort of reify biases, which was not my intent. But I never got to clarify my argument before he passed. It is still unclear to me how much...

Useful chart from Jonathon Baron's Thinking and Deciding. It shows how each bias corresponds to a prescriptive model, and then explains the heuristic that is the cause of the deviation

Three formal arguments for why there cannot be a finite set of cognitive biases.

The lack of a finite set of biases is one reason I believe Heuristics and Biases cannot survive long term as a prescriptive paradigm. A paradigm of deviations must eventually collapse under its own weight.

Everyone misinterprets Kahnemans work, even those of us in the field. H&B was revolutionary because it revealed cognitive processes, not because biases are interesting in their own right. At least Kahneman told me this once.

This is why Ive argued that we should think of behavioral science experimentation not as a test of the intervention, but as a test of the context. eg if we run an experiment with social norms, and social norms failed, then we have learned nothing about social norms as an intervention...

More accurate headline: "After decades of advocating for the view implicit in his premises, neuroscientist never once questioned the assumptions he started with"

I'm a determinist too. But framing this as something neuroscience provides evidence for is just bizarre and wrong.