Is There a Connection to Individual Autonomy?

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i share the intuition that knowing yourself is a good thing. It is part of being actively open minded, which now is something that i resonate to very, very strongly. I think olt scientists should have it. And in order to be willing to train their mind, they have to accept that their mind is imperfect and that it functions in odd ways. To me, that's a kind of form of self control, and then frees me from succumbing to temptations like that.

Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients. Now imagine that the same doctor making a different decision depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. This is an example of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical.

Shermer speaks with Nobel Prize winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman about the detrimental effects of noise and what we can do to reduce both noise and bias, and make better decisions in: medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, bail, child protection, strategy, performance reviews, and personnel selection.