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About 40 years ago Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky made some wonderful discoveries. They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, ...

Investors have recently been flocking to “safe-haven” investments like U.S. treasury bonds, gold and other commodities. These assets tend to stay valuable in uncertain times. At times of geopolitical ...

When it comes to decision making, heuristics—mental shortcuts that can simplify decision making—often attract derision as ineffective because they are subjective or non-data-driven. However, I believe ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

In the post-pandemic era of accelerated digitization, an increasing number of business tools are driven by AI, allowing company leaders to derive better business intelligence, anticipate customer ...

This article looks at how the use of heuristics in ads can predict the effectiveness of campaigns, suggesting they are important in decision-making. This article looks at how the use of heuristics in ...

Being a physician is a difficult job. They must make complex, high-stakes decisions under severe pressure, with limited information about the patient, the disease and the treatment, while juggling ...