I have long been very interested in standard thinking errors.
However, I was educated in an era wherein the contributions of non-patient-treating psychology to an understanding of misjudgment met little approval from members of the mainstream elite. Instead, interest in psychology was pretty well confined to a group of professors who talked and published mostly for themselves, with much natural detriment from isolation and groupthink.
And so, right after my time at Caltech and Harvard Law School, I possessed a vast ignorance of psychology. Those institutions failed to require knowledge of the subject. And, of course, they couldn’t integrate psychology with their other subject matter when they didn’t know psychology. Also, like the Nietzsche character who was proud of his lame leg, the institutions were proud of their willful avoidance of “fuzzy” psychology and “fuzzy” psychology professors.
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Again, so soon? I had to Wikipedia (another verbalised noun) Charlie Munger and I know now that I wish I had discovered him much sooner. His “talk” deeply resonates with me after much that I have read, to wit: The Madness of Crowds, Expert Political Judgement and a host of others. But I read your blog this morning minutes after reading the last pages of a wonderful book by Daniel Pick, published in 2022, “Brainwashed: A new history of thought control”. I learned about this book from an interview with Pick on Late Night Live only weeks ago and bought the book. There is much there about the distortion of the psychology of humans in groups/masses. I advocate it to you. You may find something of interest to you.