Mental Models Explained for Beginners
Mental models are thinking frameworks. Examples: second-order thinking asks then what. Inversion considers opposite.
What was corrected
Article claimed Charlie Munger developed his psychology-of-misjudgment framework independently of and before Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's work, though Munger has repeatedly and explicitly credited their research as foundational to his own. It also included a specific quoted internal monologue attributed to Gary Klein's fire commander research that does not match his documented published account, presented the British colonial India 'cobra effect' anecdote as straightforward documented history when historians have found the underlying account only weakly sourced, and dated the US Forest Service's fire-suppression policy to 'the 1970s' when the policy was formalized in 1935.
Corrected the Munger claim to accurately describe his framework as building on, not independently preceding, Kahneman and Tversky's research. Replaced the Klein quote with an accurately hedged paraphrase of his documented findings about expert mental simulation, added appropriate historical hedging to the cobra effect anecdote, and corrected the fire-suppression policy's date to reflect its actual 1930s formalization.
Why this is better
Verified against Munger's own 'Psychology of Human Misjudgment' speech (which explicitly credits Tversky and Kahneman), Gary Klein's published 'Sources of Power' for the actual documented quotes, historical research on the cobra effect anecdote's sourcing, and US Forest Service history on the 1935 '10 AM Policy.'