I think you’re on to something here. I taught college Stats for 10 years, and when you swim in that pond daily, over time it reshapes how you look at things. One takeaway: we tend to see patterns where patterns don’t actually exist, and/or infer things that the data don’t support. In that vein: It’s a common human tendency, when expending energy on a task, to view a positive result as due something we did whereas a failure is due to outside influence - not my fault.
Agree, and I appreciate the thought here. That is a great way to look at the world. Another quote from Thinking, Fast and Slow says, “A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”- Daniel Kahneman,
I think you’re on to something here. I taught college Stats for 10 years, and when you swim in that pond daily, over time it reshapes how you look at things. One takeaway: we tend to see patterns where patterns don’t actually exist, and/or infer things that the data don’t support. In that vein: It’s a common human tendency, when expending energy on a task, to view a positive result as due something we did whereas a failure is due to outside influence - not my fault.
Agree, and I appreciate the thought here. That is a great way to look at the world. Another quote from Thinking, Fast and Slow says, “A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”- Daniel Kahneman,