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Chapter 70 · Quick Fire

Why Change is Hard: paradigms, resistance, and the human substrate

Question 1 / 10
What did Kahneman and Tversky's prospect theory find about losses and gains?
  • 1Losses and gains are weighted equally
  • 2Humans weight losses approximately twice as heavily as equivalent gains; what looks like irrational resistance is mathematically accurate accounting given how human valuation works
  • 3Gains feel twice as good as losses hurt
  • 4Both are weighted by a factor of ten