Gerd Gigerenzer: Gut Feelings. About heuristics or underlying rules we have for doing things.
Good few pages on the idea of trusting the unconscious mind and not second guessing. If we get an expert to think about what she is doing as she is doing it it goes haywire. Remind you of anything? Well worth reading for anyone PWS or not. Not technical but properly scientifically based and an easy read.
Get it from the library or Amazon.
He also has a really good one called Reckoning with Risk about statistics, which should be compulsory reading for those of us who assume that scientists who make up conclusions on very, very little evidence. can be trusted. Should be required reading for those who believe the latest research on the BSA website. You will tear your hair out!
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