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The Psychology of Decision-Making

While we like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, why is it that we so often make what seem to be irrational decisions? Learn about Bayes’ Theorem, which tells us the correct way to calculate a conditional probability, as well as the “representativeness and availability heuristics” that so often cause us to misjudge.

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