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Computers, Information, and Decision-Making

Peoples & Things

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Why People Make Worse Choices When They Don't Have Causes

Otis: I'd worked on causality, ret and you see all the failures of prediction that doesn't involve cause relationships. Shows like, people make worse decisions when they don't have causes right its hear; it's become less depressing to give talks. And so i've found that actually, people who didn't have diabedes made better choices about diabedes because they were treating it a dislike now it's like aliens. They just use the information i gave them. Otis: All my grand proposals are important, but they don't help people as much as  causes do.

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