Noise
A Flaw in Human Judgment
Why two experts given the same facts reach different verdicts, and why that random scatter costs more than bias. Kahneman's follow-up on noisy judgment.
Kahneman’s follow-up, written with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein, turns from bias to a quieter problem: noise, the unwanted variability in judgments that should be identical. Two doctors, two judges, two underwriters given the same case reach different conclusions, and that scatter is everywhere, expensive, and largely invisible because we never see the other verdicts. The book makes the case that reducing noise matters as much as reducing bias, and lays out the decision hygiene that does it.
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