Linda Hanwacker

Linda Hanwacker is a fictional character from an infamous thought experiment in psychology known as the "Linda Problem." Proposed by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, it illustrates how people often fall prey to logical fallacies. In the experiment, participants are asked to evaluate statements about Linda, a woman described as an outspoken feminist. Many mistakenly believe it is more probable that she is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement than simply a bank teller. This highlights cognitive errors in judgment, specifically the conjunction fallacy, where people incorrectly assess the likelihood of combined events as more probable than a single event.