Learning to Think Slower: Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (2011)
Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 499 pp. ISBN 978 0374275631. As an expansive review of Kahneman and others' work over the past half century in understanding human decision making, Thinking, Fast and Slow provides Numeracy readers much to consider for both pedagogy and research. In this review, we outline Kahneman's core argument that humans use both rash (emotional) System 1 thinking and slow (logical) System 2 thinking then discuss how such systems might be addressed in a quantitative literacy classroom.