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haRness common sense
FoR decision making
SIMON Y. LIU
National Agricultural Library
US Department of Agriculture
16.1 Introduction
Decision making is a cognitive process resulting in the selection
of a course of action among several alternative scenarios (Reason,
1990). Every decision-making process produces a final choice.
Decision making is at the core of people’s daily life and all business
activities.
Contents
16.1 Introduction 203
16.2 Common Sense Decision Making 204
16.2.1 What Is Common Sense? 204
16.2.2 Common Sense Decision Process 205
16.2.3 Strengths and Weaknesses of Common Sense
Decision Making 206
16.3 Common Sense Development 207
16.4 Apply Common Sense 208
16.4.1 Case I: Making Decisions Based on Future
Inevitability—e Common ...