189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
The Michael Shermer Show
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In many situations where human judgment has been compared to algoritms or to rules, typically the algoritm of the rule come out ahead. So much of that is driven also by the complexity of the problem you're trying to solve a so medical problems and psychiatric problems are pretty complex. It's not clear that if you have six of eight symptoms, you definitely have this disease or mental disorder. And that's where the noise comes from in the assessment of those criteria.
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