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Noise A Flaw in Human Judgment

Daniel Kahneman

NEW YORK TIMES Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisi...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The host introduced the book as a study of human judgment errors, highlighting how identical cases can lead to different decisions and how framing influences choices. It was presented as a recommended read on decision variability.

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The first is called Noise, a flaw in human judgment. It's by Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein. In this book, he's focusing more on noise and variability of human decisions. For example, given identical c...

— Episode: Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think

Episode: Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think

The host introduced the book as a study of human judgment errors, highlighting how identical cases can lead to different decisions and how framing influences choices. It was presented as a recommended read on decision variability.

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The first is called Noise, a flaw in human judgment. It's by Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein. In this book, he's focusing more on noise and variability of human decisions. For example, given identical cases, a judge might make different rulings, perhaps influenced by whether his or her local sports team won or lost that weekend.

Hidden Brain

The new book was introduced as a work describing noise as a flaw in human judgment, coauthored with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein.

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In their new book, noise, a flaw in human judgment.

— Episode: The Transformative Ideas of Daniel Kahne...

Episode: The Transformative Ideas of Daniel Kahneman

The new book was introduced as a work describing noise as a flaw in human judgment, coauthored with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein.

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In their new book, noise, a flaw in human judgment.

Daniel Kahneman, Olivia Sibouny and Cass Sunstein show that noise also shapes what happens in the criminal justice system.

Episode: Our Noisy Minds

It's Kahneman's newest book, about noise in human judgment, specifically its prevalence and impact in several fields.

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They are described in his new book, Noise, a Flaw in Human Judgment.

In their new book, Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman and his co-authors, Olivier Siboney and Cass Sunstein, show that noise also shapes what happens in the criminal justice system.

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Siboney and Cass Sunstein are the authors of Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgment.

Fresh Air

Podcast

Fresh Air

The speaker mentioned that listeners familiar with this book would recognize the term 'cognitive biases' coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.

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And Daniel Kahneman, anyone who's read Thinking Fast and Slow or Noise Will Be Familiar.

— Episode: Internet Brain & The Age Of Overthinking

Episode: Internet Brain & The Age Of Overthinking

The speaker mentioned that listeners familiar with this book would recognize the term 'cognitive biases' coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.

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And Daniel Kahneman, anyone who's read Thinking Fast and Slow or Noise Will Be Familiar.

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Bob Sutton referenced the hardcover "Noise" by Daniel Kahneman as a book he reviewed for the Washington Post.

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I won't name the book, but there was a book I reviewed for the Washington Post. And I'll say it, it's Noise by Danny Kahneman, it's the first author.

— Episode: 561: Bob Sutton - How Smart Leaders Make...

Episode: 561: Bob Sutton - How Smart Leaders Make The Right...

Bob Sutton referenced the hardcover "Noise" by Daniel Kahneman as a book he reviewed for the Washington Post.

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I won't name the book, but there was a book I reviewed for the Washington Post. And I'll say it, it's Noise by Danny Kahneman, it's the first author.

The Jordan Harbinger Show

It was discussed in great depth, with many real-world examples, such as fingerprint experts and judges, and how noise contributes to poor decision-making.

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It's the subject of your new book which I read it of course loved can you tell us briefly what you mean by noise.

— Episode: 518: Daniel Kahneman | When Noise Destro...

Episode: 518: Daniel Kahneman | When Noise Destroys Our Bes...

It was discussed in great depth, with many real-world examples, such as fingerprint experts and judges, and how noise contributes to poor decision-making.

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It's the subject of your new book which I read it of course loved can you tell us briefly what you mean by noise.

It's the subject of Dr. Kahneman's latest book, also called Noise.

The book title is Noise.

Episode: 518: Daniel Kahneman | When Noise Destroys Our Bes...

It was discussed in depth, relating to the idea of human judgment and how the variation in judgments creates errors, also covering how to reduce the noise in decision-making processes.

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It's the subject of Dr. Kahneman's latest book also called Noise.

...which I read it of course loved...

...the subject of your new book which I read it of course loved can you tell us briefly what you mean by noise...

...that's what the book is about...

...the motivation for the book was the realization that actually in terms of overall contribution to error noise may often be more important than bias and that was something that was not a good example...

On Being with Krista Tippett

This book, co-authored with Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein, explores the concept of noise, or random error, in human judgment and decision-making; it argues that random error is often underestimated and has significant implications in various fields.

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And now he's about to release a new book. ... titled Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgment.

— Episode: Daniel Kahneman – Why We Contradict Ours...

Episode: Daniel Kahneman – Why We Contradict Ourselves and...

This book, co-authored with Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein, explores the concept of noise, or random error, in human judgment and decision-making; it argues that random error is often underestimated and has significant implications in various fields.

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And now he's about to release a new book. ... titled Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgment.

And now you can order his new book, Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgment, which he's written together with Olivier Siboney and Cass Sunstein.

That's my passion these days.

Episode: [Unedited] Daniel Kahneman with Krista Tippett

This book explores the concept of "noise"--random error in human judgment--and its negative impact on accuracy and organizational outcomes. The authors highlight the invisibility of this error and the difficulty in recognizing it.

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The fascinating thing about random error, what I call noise, is that it's invisible. That we're not aware of it.

We found, we studied an insurance company and we found that underwriters really didn't agree among themselves to, I would say, almost a catastrophic degree in what premium they should assess.

That problem is invisible to the organization. Nobody knew it existed until we pointed it out.

Stay Tuned with Preet

The book was published in 2021, and was started very late in life by Daniel Kahneman when he was in his 80s.

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You know the book noise as premature If I had been 20 years earlier that's not what I would have done Having identified the problem of noise I would have started the research program on noise and give...

— Episode: How Biden Can Beat Trump, Again (with Ev...

Episode: How Biden Can Beat Trump, Again (with Evan Osnos)

The book was published in 2021, and was started very late in life by Daniel Kahneman when he was in his 80s.

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You know the book noise as premature If I had been 20 years earlier that's not what I would have done Having identified the problem of noise I would have started the research program on noise and given talks about it And thought about it and written articles about it But I started this thing very late I started it in my 80s and you just don't have time This in a serious sense is a book that came too early End quote

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