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Comments on Nisbett and Ross book on human inference

%3Nisbett, Richard and Lee Ross (1979)%1: %2Human Inference: Strategies
and Shortcomings of Social Judgment%1, Prentice-Hall.

248 - Motivational explanations for prejudice may be explained by the fact
that moralistic attacks on prejudice are often more successful
than rationalist attacks.

250 - Humanity has made enormously more silly inferences about the
moon and the possibility of getting there than correct ones.  However,
there is a servo-mechanism, however faltering, for amplifying the
correct inferences.

252 - Those were correct analogies Johnson made.  His errors were
elsewhere.

259 - Small samples are often quite good.

269 - The trouble with the rain dance is that it inhibits irrigation.