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Verifiability does not change the experience of judgment. To some degree, you might perhaps think harder about a problem whose answer will be revealed soon, because the fear of being exposed concentrates the mind. Conversely, you might refuse to give much thought to a problem so hypothetical as to be absurd (“If Gambardi had three legs and could fly, would he be a better CEO?”). But, by and large, you address a plausible, hypothetical problem in much the same way that you tackle a real one. This similarity is important to psychological research, much of which uses made-up problems.
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
It is important to me that humans are treated fairly. I believe that most humans are trying to do the right thing, but unconscious bias leads them astray. I work hard to understand and address my biases because I understand their ability to create inequity.
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Wrong. On every page, Judson was proving to him that biology was as much a science as physics had ever been—that this messy, organic, non-mechanistic world was in fact governed by a handful of principles that were as deep and profound as Newton’s laws of motion.
Complexity
M. Mitchell Waldrop
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