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Noise : a flaw in human judgment /

Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-

Noise : a flaw in human judgment / Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein. - ix, 454 pages : illustrations (black and white)

"Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients – or that two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matching crimes. Now imagine that the same doctor and the same judge make different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday, or they haven’t yet had lunch. These are examples of noise: variability in judgements that should be identical. In 'Noise', Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise produces errors in many fields, including in medicine, law, public health, economic forecasting, forensic science, child protection, creative strategy, performance review and hiring. And although noise can be found wherever people are making judgements and decisions, individuals and organizations alike commonly ignore its impact, at great cost. Packed with new ideas, and drawing on the same kind of sharp analysis and breadth of case study that made 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' and 'Nudge' international bestsellers, 'Noise' explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise and bias in decision-making. We all make bad judgements more than we think. With a few simple remedies, this groundbreaking book explores what we can do to make better ones."--

9780008308995 9780008309008 9780008472566 9780008480165

GBC131798 bnb

020119292 Uk


Decision making.
Judgment (Logic).
Choice (Psychology).
Neuroeconomics.
Reasoning.

153.83

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