Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.

Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The first attribute in the list sets the framing.

Another example is:

Jeff is lazy, intelligent and charming.
Marc is charming intelligent and lazy.

Your brain most likely will have a more positive impression of Marc than of Jeff, despite both being described with the exact same attributes.

Or what about this one:

Pay 20 dollars. Then you get to flip a coin. If it lands on heads you gain 100 dollars. If it lands on tails you get nothing.
You get to flip a coin. If it lands on heads you gain 80 dollars. If it lands on tails you have to pay 20 dollars.

People will generally consider the first one to be better, because they could “win” more in the second step and “loose” nothing. The second one will probably be more averted because loosing could be “punished”.
If you think slow about it and run the math, both set ups have the same probabilities with the same earnings or losses.

I highly recommend the book “thinking fast, thinking slow” that deals a lot with these biases.

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