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    It is not the case that Kahneman and Tversky's heuristics-and-biases research demonstrates that subjects commit systematic logical errors even when supplied with stipulated, accepted premises in laboratory conditions.

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    • 1.Laboratory tasks use unfamiliar abstract formats; subjects may interpret stipulated premises differently than experimenters intend.
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    • 2.Heuristics often serve as rational shortcuts in naturalistic contexts; lab isolation removes evolutionary/ecological validity needed to assess actual reasoning.
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    • 3.Framing effects and pragmatic conversational norms may drive responses more than logical errors; rewording questions yields different answers.
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    • 1.Repeated experimental replications across populations show consistent violation patterns (conjunction fallacy, representativeness bias) not explained by premise misunderstanding.
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    • 2.Laboratory controls eliminate confounds like time pressure and ambiguous wording that might excuse errors in real-world reasoning.
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    • 3.Even educated subjects and experts fail identical tasks, suggesting errors reflect fundamental cognitive architecture, not knowledge gaps.
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