A review of the book, How We Decide. The book uses neuroscience discoveries to illuminate how the human mind makes decisions as well as how decisions can be improved.
From the category archives:
Decision Making
Super Freakonomics is published and it is as good as the earlier book. This post summarizes one of the stories in the book that show that perhaps our behaviors around money are instinctual.
Ten questions, most which require counter intuitive thinking, are presented and explained.
Facts are not permanent. Knowledge makes some facts untrue. This post presents several “facts” from zoology that did not survive knowledge.
People have a lot of trouble visualizing big numbers, particularly, the relationship between one big number and another big number.
Over at Flowing Data, Nathan shares a few interesting graphics about the topic-du-jour… Swine Flu.
Over at Poynter.org, Steve Myers shares his interview with Sarah Cohen, database editor for The Washington Post’s investigative team. In the piece, they discuss how reporters can use interactive graphics for their exploratory reporting.
The Washington Post recently released an infographic detailing how the $819 economic stimulus plans to be spent.
