“Tversky really thought that these biases in human nature were, for lack of a better term, mistakes. You know, errors,” McDermott told me. “It’s like an optical illusion. Once I show it to you, you’ll see the error of your ways and you’ll correct them. And what evolutionary psychology says is, hey, it’s not everything, but there’s a set of behavioral predispositions” that might account for seemingly irrational behavior.
