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189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

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The Measure of Inaccuracy

There is actually a mathematical theory of accuracy, and it's not very complicated. It's associated with the name of valgaus. And what you see here is two types of airor to sources of air. They are adlative. They are independent of each other. And if you reduce them by the same amount, you're reducing overall air by the same amount. So that that, in short, is what noise is. The whole theory that we start from is a theory of measurement.

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