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Daniel Kahneman on Making Intelligent Decisions in a Chaotic World - Part 1

Intelligence Squared

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The Noise in Medicine

There's a lot of noise in medicine about as much noise as we're with there is judgment, there is noise. In some cases it really is quite shocking. We had a set of data sent to us from Harvard Medical School on the diagnosis of epilepsy from EG recordings. And the average correlation between two physicians in judging cases is not exactly zero but it's not much higher than zero. There's actually noise in medicine to carry on.

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