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We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
Born: Apr 18, 1964

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Increasingly, Our, Way, Ability, Miracle, Risk, Clear, Biases, Sort, Understand, Becoming, Historians, Very, Get, Anything, Experimental, Psychology, Act, Evaluate, Using, Right, Cognitive

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