Animals, like humans, appear to be troubled by a Linda problem. The famous “Linda problem” was designed by psychologists to illustrate how people fall prey to what is known as the conjunction fallacy: ...

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are famous for their work on a large number of cognitive fallacies that we all tend to commit. One is what they call the conjunction fallacy. The most famous ...

There are many different ways to assess discrimination. My last post reviewed three recent papers, which use a range of methods, and found discrimination to be a relatively rare exception rather than ...

Linda is a young, outspoken philosophy major who is deeply involved in social justice movements and anti-nuclear protests. Is it more likely that (a) she is a bank teller, or (b) that she is a bank ...