The tie-in to rationality is that instead of coming up with a hypothesis about the culprit, the hero comes up with algorithms for finding the culprit, and quantifies how well they would have worked applied to past cases.
It’s really a TV episode about computational statistical inference, rather than a movie about rationality, but it’s good media for cognitive algorithm appreciators.
The pilot episode of NUMB3RS.
The tie-in to rationality is that instead of coming up with a hypothesis about the culprit, the hero comes up with algorithms for finding the culprit, and quantifies how well they would have worked applied to past cases.
It’s really a TV episode about computational statistical inference, rather than a movie about rationality, but it’s good media for cognitive algorithm appreciators.