Notes

Expertise and System 1 Thinking

November 7, 2024

The claim that experts rely too much on deliberate, effortful thinking is too reductive. The more expertise someone has in a field, the more likely they are to rely on System 1 thinking. A statistics expert does not spend much time in deliberative mode when cleaning data or writing R code — that knowledge has become automatic.

Originally posted on Twitter, November 2024.

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