martedì 7 dicembre 2010

FOCUS: What Do YOU Think? Making Right Choices: Art or Science?


Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

Decision-making, at its heart, involves a series of choices. Neuropsychologists tell us that the human brain can comfortably deal with only a limited number of alternatives (seven plus or minus two, according to a number of studies). Fields like decision theory were developed to help humans organize their thinking so that alternative actions could be arrayed according to their attractiveness, expressed in quantitative terms.

 

 

 

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