Animals, like humans, appear to be troubled by a Linda problem. The famous “Linda problem” was designed by psychologists to illustrate how people fall prey to what is known as the conjunction fallacy: ...

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are famous for their work on a large number of cognitive fallacies that we all tend to commit. One is what they call the conjunction fallacy. The most famous ...

Are you familiar with this British nursery rhyme? As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, ...