Chris Power

Chris Power was born on March 5th in Tel Aviv. During World War II, he had to wear a Star of David after Nazi German forces occupied Paris where he lived with his parents. His father narrowly escaped deportation to a death camp and they eventually found refuge in Vichy France before moving to Israel after the war.

Biography:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-lonely-man-is-an-elegant-suspense-novel-in-the-tradition-of-the-the-third-man/2021/05/12/5981a17e-ace8-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html

86%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

80%

Examples:

  • The author takes a dim view of people's ability to think their way through problems and argues that many are overconfident in their intuitions.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • He mentions that Dr. Kahneman found people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often lead to wrongheaded decisions due to their tendency to be influenced by recent events and quick to jump to conclusions under some conditions.
  • The author has a personal connection with the subject matter as he is a literary critic in London.

Contradictions

75%

Examples:

  • Kahneman's research was best known for debunking the notion of 'homo economicus', a concept that since Adam Smith had been considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest.
  • People rely on intellectual shortcuts that often lead to wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest because they are too influenced by recent events and quick to jump to conclusions under some conditions.

Deceptions

80%

Examples:

  • However, this statement is not supported by any evidence in the article.
  • The article mentions that Dr. Kahneman found people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often lead to wrongheaded decisions due to their tendency to be influenced by recent events and quick to jump to conclusions under some conditions.

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Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize Winning Psychologist Dies at 90

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize Winning Psychologist Dies at 90

Broke On: Wednesday, 27 March 2024 Daniel Kahneman, a renowned psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, died on March 27 at the age of 90. His work exposed hard-wired mental biases in people's economic behavior and led to the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 2002. Kahneman's central message was that human reason left to its own devices is apt to engage in a number of fallacies and systematic errors, so if we want to make better decisions, we ought to be aware of these biases and seek workarounds.