System 1 excels at constructing the best possible story that incorporates ideas currently
activated, but it does not (cannot) allow for information it does not have. The measure of
success for System 1 is the coherence of the story it manages to create. The amount and quality
of the data on which the story is based are largely irrelevant […] The combination of a
coherence-seeking System 1 with a lazy System 2 implies that System 2 will endorse many
intuitive beliefs, which closely reflect the impressions generated by System 1. Of course,
System 2 also is capable of a more systematic and careful approach to evidence, and of
following a list of boxes that must be checked before making a decision – think of buying a
home, when you deliberately seek information that you do not have