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Noise, a flaw in human judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

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Noise, a flaw in human judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-438) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Noise

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1249942231

Responsibility statement

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

Sub title

a flaw in human judgment

Summary

Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection

Table Of Contents

Part I. Finding noise: Crime and noisy punishment ; A noisy system ; Singular decision -- Part II. Your mind is a measuring instrument: Matters of judgment ; Measuring error ; The analysis of noise ; Occasion noise ; How groups amplify noise -- Part III. Noise in predictive judgment: Judgments and models ; Noiseless rules ; Objective ignorance ; The valley of the normal -- Part IV. How noise happens: Heuristics, biases, and noise ; The matching operation ; Scale ; Patterns ; The sources of noise -- Part V. Improving judgments: Better judges for better judgments ; Debiasing and decision hygiene ; Sequencing information in forensic science ; Selection and aggregation in forecasting ; Guidelines in medicine ; Defining the scale in performance ratings ; Structure in hiring ; The mediating assessments protocol -- Part VI. Optimal noise: The costs of noise reduction ; Dignity ; Rules or standards?

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