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Loading... Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (edition 1982)by Daniel Kahneman (Editor), Paul Slovic (Editor), Amos Tversky (Editor)A collection of academic essays. They can be hit or miss, but the hits make this well worth slogging through. My favorites were "Judgment under uncertainty", "Belief in the law of small numbers", and "Learning from experience and suboptimal rules in decision making" (I was unable to find a copy of this one online). Author Jonah Lehrer has chosen to discuss Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Decision-Making, saying that: “...This is one of the most influential books in modern economics. But first of all, it’s just this list of incredibly clever experiments, where Kahneman and Tversky just asked their undergraduates very simple hypothetical questions. They took these very simple protocols and transformed them into the first really hard proof that people consistently violate the expectation of rational agents. That we don’t think like homo economicus at all. Irrationality is embedded deep into our operating system. …” The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jonah-lehrer-on-decision-making |
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