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		7373737373 on Jan 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brain of a White-Collar Worker (2007) I once saw a website I think where histograms of each of such words were plotted, can't find it anymore though

kthejoker2 on Jan 26, 2022 [–]

You're probably thinking of this HBR article by Andrew and Michael Maboussin

https://hbr.org/2018/07/if-you-say-something-is-likely-how-l...

which is an updated take on the methodology of Dick Heuer's Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

https://prasadcapital.com/2018/07/03/book-summary-psychology...

, which itself was driven by the research into words of estimative probability by CIA legend Sherman Kent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_estimative_probabilit...

7373737373 on Jan 26, 2022 | [–]

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