Hence, the planning fallacy is a pervasive and persistent phenomenon that is not easy to tackle.

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These biases include the anchoring effect, the planning fallacy and the illusion of control.

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In my view, this is just another in a long line of bogus (imho) guidelines that feed into the fallacy that retirement planning should be based on pre-retirement income levels.

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