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%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.