In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer)

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky’s research agenda got wrong, and why it’s a mistake to place intuition and conscious thinking on opposing ends of the cognition spectrum. Topics he discusses in this wide-ranging conversation with EconTalk’s Russ Roberts include what Gigerenzer calls the “bias bias”–the overemphasis on claims of irrationality, why it’s better to replace “nudging” with “boosting,” and...