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A review by zuomiriam
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
3.0
A fairly accessible overview of cognitive biases, logical fallacies, and probabilistic reasoning, with strong applications to the real world (past and present); Pinker does a great job of giving intuitive explanations for quantitative ideas like Bayesian updating and multiple regression. Probably not worth sinking (on average) 10+ hours into this one if you've taken a few probability/statistics courses and/or have read a number of behavioral economics texts like Predictably Irrational or Thinking Fast and Slow, but if not, it should be a pretty engaging read.