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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein

Little, Brown Spark, 2021, 464 pp., US$ 32.00

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  1. Department of Statistics, 367 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

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“This book comments that we tend to pay attention to possible bias—one judge may be lenient and another harsh—but do not pay enough attention to noise.”

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Aldous, D. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein. Math Intelligencer 45, 291–293 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-022-10207-9

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