Re-reading this many years later, I noticed something:
In 1976 one of us (Daniel Kahneman) was involved in a project designed to develop a curriculum for the study of judgment and decision making under uncertainty for high schools in Israel...the project went on along its predictably unforeseeable path to eventual completion some eight years later.
There exists a curriculum for the study of judgment and decision making under uncertainty for high schools! Someone spent eight years developing it! Where can we get this curriculum?
Apparently it “never saw daylight”. I bet he’d still have a copy for the materials if one were to get in contact with him. How much of that wouldn’t be in Thinking Fast and Slow though?
True, but high school curricula have changed very little in the last four decades.
Most of the high school curricula is about subjects where the knowledge base that’s supposed to be communicated didn’t change much in the last 4 decades.
But look at math. 4 decades ago students where taught how to use slide rulers.
There was no Core math four decades ago.
Re-reading this many years later, I noticed something:
There exists a curriculum for the study of judgment and decision making under uncertainty for high schools! Someone spent eight years developing it! Where can we get this curriculum?
Apparently it “never saw daylight”. I bet he’d still have a copy for the materials if one were to get in contact with him. How much of that wouldn’t be in Thinking Fast and Slow though?
Thinking Fast and Slow isn’t about how to teach high school students. The curriculum might have ideas about how to go about that.
I agree. Nowhere else are we likely to get something optimized for that especially since it took nearly a decade to create.
It took a long time to create but it’s nearly 4 decades old. A lot has happened since then.
True, but high school curricula have changed very little in the last four decades.
Most of the high school curricula is about subjects where the knowledge base that’s supposed to be communicated didn’t change much in the last 4 decades.
But look at math. 4 decades ago students where taught how to use slide rulers. There was no Core math four decades ago.