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Chapter 10, “Lifetimes of Chance” (pp. 192-193; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)
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Tversky was fond of describing his work as “debugging human intuition.”...Tversky could establish again and again the existence of mismatches between intuition and probability—between cognitive illusion and reality.

— Ivars Peterson

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About Ivars Peterson

Ivars Peterson (born 4 December 1948) is an award-winning mathematics writer.