When choosing milk, do you prefer 5% fat or 95% fat free? What if a doctor presented the risk from surgery as 90 % survive, versus 10% die? Same risk, different framing. Whether people accept the surgery shouldn’t matter on how that identical risk is presented, right? It turns out, how information and risks are… Continue reading Framing and communicating risk – 90% survive vs 10% die
Tag: heuristics
“I think, therefore I err”: An article about ‘good errors’, heuristics and intelligent systems
“Every intelligent system makes errors”, so said Gerd Gigerenzer. Here’s a couple of page extracts from a 2005 paper. Not sure if I’ll summarise it or not (it’s really interesting, but tough to capture in a summary…) The paper: · Challenges the rationalistic and normative ideal as cognition as purely a logical and rational one, ignoring… Continue reading “I think, therefore I err”: An article about ‘good errors’, heuristics and intelligent systems
Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition: type 1 and type 2 preferred over system 1 and system 2
I think it’s fair to say that Kahneman has been central in the general awareness of cognitive processing concepts, like System 1 / System 2. Dual processing concepts (but also tri-processing), have a long history, but also have their critics. Moreover, system 1 / system 2 isn’t currently the preferred nomenclature. If this topic interests… Continue reading Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition: type 1 and type 2 preferred over system 1 and system 2
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