Favorite Sentence of the Day

Andrew Gelman, a professor of statistics and political science, recommending Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky:

I like to say that this is the best-edited book that I’ve ever seen, at least since the New Testament.

How could you not want to read the book after reading a blurb like that?

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