BrainCandy 68: Daniel Kahneman identifies a new cause for human error

The famous psychologist, Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author Daniel Kahneman has just published his latest work. Together with professors Sibony and Sunstein (Nudge), he takes care of an important human decision-making error. This time it's not about the downright entertaining biases, i.e. the automatic thinking errors / rules of thumb that explain non-rational behaviour, but about a hitherto largely underestimated phenomenon of human decisions. It is about noise, that is, noise that one recognises, for example, when experts assess certain facts completely differently, although one would expect them to come to the same conclusions. These are really new ideas, so important that you want to put them into practice immediately. I give here a brief insight into the core of the book, and hopefully make you want to deal with this important book in more detail.