Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman was teaching flight instructors in the Israeli Air Force that rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes, the more experienced flight instructors were not convinced. Their experience told them that screaming in the earphone of a cadet for bad execution lead to a better attempts the next time. In a careful explanation of regression to the mean, Kahneman helps the reader understand that poor performance was typically followed by improvement. And that one’s experience may show correlation but not necessarily causation. Only by slowing your thinking down and paying close attention to the data can you gain a perspective to help test our intuitive knowledge. Thinking Fast and Slow provides a precise presentation about the inner workings of our thinking processes. Read a complete review at The Guardian.