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> [“The important point here is that with hindsight it is always possible to spot the most anomalous features of the data and build a favorable statistical analysis around them. However, a properly-trained scientist (or simply a wise person) avoids doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/the-important-point-here-is-that-with-hindsight-it-is-always-possible/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

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## More by Thomas Gilovich

> [“Chapter 7 takes a psychological truism, “we tend to believe what we think others believe” and turns it around: We tend to think others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/chapter-7-takes-a-psychological-truism-we-tend-to-believe-what-we/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“As part of this research, one group of participants was asked which two countries are more similar to one another, East Germany and West…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/as-part-of-this-research-one-group-of-participants-was-asked-which/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/finally-it-has-been-shown-that-the-tendency-for-people-to-think-of/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“It appears that the probabilistic sciences of psychology and medicine teach their students to apply statistical and methodological rules to both scientific and everyday-life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/it-appears-that-the-probabilistic-sciences-of-psychology-and-medicine/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find coherence among diverse outcomes, characteristics, and causes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/to-live-it-seems-is-to-explain-to-justify-and-to-find-coherence-among/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their capacity to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/social-psychologist-ziva-kunda-who-argues-that-people-are-indeed-more/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/we-humans-seem-to-be-extremely-good-at-generating-ideas-theories-and/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/our-difficulty-in-accurately-recognizing-random-arrangements-of/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“We therefore should be more skeptical than we seem to be about evidence presented to us secondhand. We should become accustomed to asking ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/we-therefore-should-be-more-skeptical-than-we-seem-to-be-about/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/in-other-words-when-testing-a-hypothesis-of-similarity-people-look/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/what-we-believe-is-heavily-influenced-by-what-we-think-others-believe/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“develop the habit of employing one of several “consider the opposite” strategies. We can learn to ask ourselves, for example, “Suppose the exact opposite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/develop-the-habit-of-employing-one-of-several-consider-the-opposite/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“Unfortunately, psychology has not adequately come to grips with the difficult subject of entertainment (or with its opposite, boredom). Despite a few initial efforts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/unfortunately-psychology-has-not-adequately-come-to-grips-with-the/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“confirmatory events are in fact much more memorable than non-confirmatory events.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/confirmatory-events-are-in-fact-much-more-memorable-than-non/)

[Thomas Gilovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-gilovich/)

> [“Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-gilovich/perhaps-the-most-general-and-most-important-mental-habit-to-instill/)

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