Causes and Statistics

“There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases … On the other hand, surprising individual cases have a powerful impact … because the incongruity must be resolved and embedded in a causal story.”

Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow, p. 174

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