Noise : a flaw in human judgment

By:

Kahneman, Daniel

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London William Collins 2021Description: ix, 454pISBN:

9780008309008 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

153.83 KAH

Summary: Noise: The new book from the authors of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow and 'Nudge 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 havent yet had lunch. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical. In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise produces errors

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Psychology	153.83 KAH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002767
Book	Plaksha University Library	Psychology	153.83 KAH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002768

Noise: The new book from the authors of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow and 'Nudge 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 havent yet had lunch. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical. In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein show how noise produces errors

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