Robyn Dawes

Everyday Irrationality

How Pseudo- Scientists, Lunatics, And The Rest Of Us Systematically Fail To Think Rationally

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Produktbeschreibung

Robyn Dawes demonstrates how irrationality results from ignoring obvious comparisons, while instead falling into associational and story-based thinking. He also demonstrates that a lot of everyday judgment, unsupported professional claims, and even social policy is based on "everyday" irrationality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780813340265
• ISBN-10: 0813340268
• Artikelnr.: 20950402

Autorenporträt

Robyn Dawes

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Irrationality Is Abundant
Irrationality Has Consequences
Irrationality: Emotional, Cognitive, Both, or Neither?
Irrationality as a "Reasonable" Response to an Incomplete Specification
Probabilistic Rationality and Irrationality
Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment
Good Stories
Connecting Ourselves with Others, Without Recourse to a Good Story
Sexual Abuse Hysteria
Figure Versus Ground (Entry Value Versus Default Value)
Rescuing Human Rationality