Kevin’s Reviews > Thinking, Fast and Slow > Status Update

Ch10: Most people believe that they have a good 'statistical intuition' but fail to recognize and accept randomness. We tend to seek causal explanations to phenomena when none in fact exist.

'We pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliability, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify.'