If you’re in London and interested in decision making, decide to be free the evening of September 23rd.
Gerd Gigerenzer, one of the world’s leading heuristics gurus and Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, will be opening the season at the Economics and [...]

Dan Goldstein at Decision Science News has just highlighted some interesting stuff from Gerd Gigerenzer in relation to the perceived value of cancer screening. Gigerenzer recently authored Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, which I reviewed here. Gigerenzer demonstrates the problem of false positives, the fear it can induce in the unlucky patient, [...]

Gerd Gigerenzer’s new book, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious (Allen Lane, £14.99) has been troubling me for some time. It’s the kind of book whose title, like The Wisdom of Crowds, is going to mislead a few people. There are already a few too many out there who worship their own [...]