“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.”

—  Daniel Kahneman , book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Israeli-American psychologist 1934

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