Don't trust your initial intuition in interviews; instead, test it.
Structure interviews by rating candidates on specific traits, gathering data first.
Delay forming an overall intuitive judgment until after the structured rating is complete.
This "delayed intuition" proved to be a highly effective predictor of candidate success, even surpassing the average of individual trait ratings.
Combine structured data with delayed intuition for optimal decision-making.
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Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Prize winner who transformed our understanding of the biases that cloud our thinking. In this conversation, he and Adam explore when to trust our intuition and when to second-guess it. Danny explains how he finds joy in being wrong, spells out steps to smarter interviewing, and reveals how he—the master decoder of decision-making—makes decisions. Find the transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/RT-Kahneman