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Human judgment and social policy: irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice
Abstract
Preface PART I: RIVALRY 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis PART II: TENSION 4. Origins of Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence in Judgment and Decision Making 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence PART III: COMPROMISE 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise 7. Task Structure, Cognitive Change, and Pattern Recognition 8. Reducing Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Through Constructive Complementarity PART IV: POSSIBILITIES 9. Is it possible to Learn by Intervening?
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- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1997-04-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 08
- Pages
- 34-4545-34-4545
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
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- W1662711610
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- en
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