"Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that……" — Daniel Kahneman
"Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception."
—
Daniel Kahneman
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
158 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman has 158 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like…
-
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in…
-
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
-
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
-
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information…
-
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
-
We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors…
-
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
-
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
-
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that…
-
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love…
-
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments…
See all 158 quotes by Daniel Kahneman »
More Distort Quotes
This quote is filed under Distort Quotes,
one of 85 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
— George Santayana
-
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
— Jean Giraudoux
-
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and…
— Samuel Johnson
-
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
-
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise,…
— Unknown Author
-
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort…
— Stephen Batchelor
-
I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But I don't think…
— Sharon Stone
-
Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is…
— Janice Raymond
-
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
— Edward Abbey
-
In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can…
— Mitt Romney
-
I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another…
— George Soros
See all 85 Distort Quotes »