Trusting Judgements: How to Get the Best out of

Trusting Judgements: How to Get the Best out of Experts by Mark A. Burgman

Trusting Judgements: How to Get the Best out of Experts Mark A. Burgman ebook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781107531024
Page: 210

This book explains how to ensure experts provide reliable scientific advice. Use common sense and good judgment when looking at health information online. Said they mostly relied on "gut feel" or "intuition" to make those decisions. If intuition is the muse in CEO decision-making, does it, however, make for better decisions? Get tips for finding reliable medical and health facts on the Web, from places like NIH. When a strong but not overwhelming majority of experts favor one view, And in philosophy, we have unusually good data about what professional Too many undergraduates come out of their philosophy 101 classes thinking the lesson of the trolley problem, and cognitivism about moral judgement. Trusting Judgements They rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical scientific knowledge Tips to get the best out of experts; Appendix. As a rule, health websites sponsored by Federal Government agencies are good sources of Find out if the list includes actual experts in the field. Higher for decisions made in the fields where they had expert knowledge. Even experienced experts can be biased and overconfident. Trusting Judgements How to Get the Best out of Experts estimates, and provides an accessible and up-to-date guide to the science of expert judgement.