189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
The Michael Shermer Show
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How to Reduce the Noise in a Mental Hospital
There are difficult problems where, if you took a lot of people and average them, ther average judgment wouldn't be correct. Those are cult problem for which there is no good solution. But if you average, you would eliminate noise. And reducing noise improves accuracy. That's that invisible quantity. It is very difficult to for people to see. Yes. Well, so the last thirdo your book deals with that. What can we do about it? Which is important for we get to day lig just when you're talking about the psychiatric problems in the d s m and so on.
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