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Noise

A Flaw in Human Judgment

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By: Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
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From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the co-author of Nudge, and the author of You Are About to Make a Terrible Mistake! comes Noise, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments, and how to control both noise and cognitive bias.​

Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indistinguishable job applicants—or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to answer the phone. Now imagine that the same doctor, the same judge, the same interviewer, or the same customer service agent makes different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical.

In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein show the detrimental effects of noise in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, bail, child protection, strategy, performance reviews, and personnel selection. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise. Yet, most of the time, individuals and organizations alike are unaware of it. They neglect noise. With a few simple remedies, people can reduce both noise and bias, and so make far better decisions.

Packed with original ideas, and offering the same kinds of research-based insights that made Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment—and what we can do about it.

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Interesting and insightful, though not surprising to anyone who has studied even introductory psychology. Also, consider the dead horse beaten. The points are introduced, retold, summarized, repeated, and reintroduced. The book could have been half the size or included twice the number of demonstrative examples.

Insightful but repetitive

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I enjoyed the authors previous works more. Sunstein turns it a little too much into law reather than Psycology, which I don't appreciate. Still a great book.

Not as great as Thinking Fast/Slow or Nudge

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People often think their judgements and choices are free from [negative] bias. That is, bias that negatively affects outcomes. Should be noted that all decisions have bias and noise. If you’re in a good mood you forgive people more and treat them better. It’s true, you aren’t a computer. Even acknowledging there is noise in decisions brings them to awareness and you may indeed choose differently based on the knowledge. Basically, there’s more going into your decisions than you think.

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interesting and challenging subject. Hope to continue learning on this subject. not an easy listening but made easy.

dificult subject made accessible

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He maybe didn't bring arts and architecture to the book but they are one of the most sciences that need denoising.
Thanks for the great book.

Just what we need

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