Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...

In my last two entries on this site, I discussed biases and heuristics. I wrote about them separately because I had plenty to say about both, which, for anyone who knows me, is not a surprise. What I ...

We study the effectiveness of simple heuristics in multiattribute decision making. We consider the case of an additive separable utility function with nonnegative, nonincreasing attribute weights. In ...

Heuristic = an experience-based technique that helps in problem solving, learning or discovery. A heuristic method is on that is used to rapidly come to a solution. Heuristics are "rules of thumb". In ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...