How to Think Like a Scientist in Everyday Life

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1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   3 corrections applied: The 1960 Wason study was the 2-4-6 rule-discovery task, not the card-selection (four-card) task | The lawyer/engineer base-rate-neglect work is from Kahneman & Tversky (1973), not 1974 | Kahneman & Tversky's base-rate (lawyer/engineer) paper appeared in Psychological Review, not Cognitive Psychology

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   Peter Wason's card-selection experiment (1960) | In 1974, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky | The original paper, published in Cognitive Psychology

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   Peter Wason's 2-4-6 rule-discovery experiment (1960) | In 1973, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky | The original paper, published in Psychological Review

   Why: Verified all three corrections already correctly applied in body content (2-4-6 rule-discovery task, 1973 date, Psychological Review journal name). FAQ does not mention Wason's task type, the 1973/1974 date, or the journal name for the base-rate paper. Excerpt does not mention these details. No further action needed.

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