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: ...

Imagine there are 100 toy blocks in front of a toddler. Each of the blocks costs $1, 50 of them are red, 50 blue, and to build a sturdy little house requires about 75 or so blocks. By necessity the ...

Physicians tend to excel in science and math, so it's a bit surprising that, in a new study, nearly 8 in 10 ― 78% ― committed a gaffe called the conjunction fallacy. Researchers asked doctors to ...

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: ...

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 ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. When Jack was young, he began inflicting harm on animals. It started with just pulling the wings off flies, but eventually progressed ...

Trying to beat the stock market by buying expensive funds is a bit like smoking: most people should know it's bad for them, so why do they persist? Could it be because investors think active fund ...

(via TEDEd) Meet Lucy. She was a math major in college, and aced all her courses in probability and statistics. Which do you think is more likely: that Lucy is a portrait artist, or that Lucy is a ...

Sound, light and the conjunction fallacy in rats Some have argued that the conjunction fallacy, rather than being a true logical error, may hinge on language, particularly people's uncertainty about ...