It looks like the logical faculties of humans have been dropping in the age of the internet; mistakes are worse today than they were when I published Fooled by Randomness > 12 years ago.
When I wrote here “Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency equals what you wish to show your neighbor” about 1/2 of people including 1/5 here on this site mistook it for an invitation to pay more taxes instead of showing-off much less with your money.
The error almost always linked to Kahneman’s attribute substitution: always reduce the problem to something easier to communicate, at the expense of transforming the meaning, Procrustean Bed style. “We underestimate randomness” turns into “It’s all random”.Now the 1/5 people on this site making such mistakes… it is painful, but we need them to leave.

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