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Human Factors of a Global Society
book

Human Factors of a Global Society

by Tadeusz Marek, Waldemar Karwowski, Marek Frankowicz, Jussi Kantola, Pavel Zgaga
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1177 pages
50h 23m
English
CRC Press
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cognitive situations such as scientic research or medical statistical diagnoses. Good decision mak-
ing or problem solving requires ignoring part of the available information and performing less
complex estimations. Human beings have evolved, Gigerenzer (2008) admits, as “natural statisti-
cians” who are rather good at simple, noncomplex tasks. Violations of logical rules are not cognitive
illusions, but they are a manifestation of practical, bounded rationality.
“The adaptive toolbox contains the building blocks for fast and frugal heuristics. A heuristic is fast
if it can solve a problem in little time and frugal if it can solve it with little information. Unlike as-if
optimization models, heuristics ca ...
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