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Daniel Kahneman on 'noise' – the flaw in human judgement harder to detect than cognitive bias

  • Written by Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW
Daniel Kahneman on 'noise' – the flaw in human judgement harder to detect than cognitive biasZarya Maxim Alexandrovich/Shutterstock

Imagine two doctors presented with identical information about the same patient giving very different diagnoses. Now imagine the reason for the difference is because the doctors have made their diagnosis in the morning or afternoon, or at the beginning or the end of the week.

This is “noise”...

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