7/14/13 Update. What to do, what to do, what to do. The book is being pulled by the publisher and refunds offered. Clearly, something's wrong. I loved the ideas, even if they weren't Lehrer's, but now I'm afraid he deserves a permanent ban from my to be read pile. I find myself questioning how much...
Lehrer has collected lots of interesting studies, but there were times that I questioned the "why" explanations and conclusions he offered, which unfortunately tended to be in the form of declaratives (without qualifiers). So, I would say read it—it's interesting and thought-provoking—but don't read...
I really enjoyed all but the last section of this book (about poker), which I thought fell flat and needed some more editing. It provides a lot of interesting anecdotes and reasoning, but I would have liked a little more detail about the experiments Lehrer used to illustrate some of his concepts. Th...
Update 3/5/2013: Publisher pulls book offers refundsMeh. Lehrer just never really grabbed me, nor did the book ever seem to synthesize into a cohesive whole. In part I was vexed by the lack of female examples: only one woman shows up in the whole thing, and she's demonstrating thinking gone wrong...
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