One thing Kahneman got right is that people are "bad intuitive statisticians".

But was very wrong to think that's a flaw, and more wrong to try to correct it.

Statistics is unintuitive for a reason. And we've survived because of it. https://t.co/A97PrL7EMH

— Harry Crane (@HarryDCrane) March 9, 2020

Which is where the technocrats went wrong and always go wrong. Too many IYIs, not enough sense.