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Deciding under uncertainty with heuristics

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Deciding under uncertainty with heuristics — SHR, Bern
Deciding under uncertainty with heuristics — SHR, Bern

Deciding under uncertainty with heuristics — what studies show, and what they don't.

The research

Study: Gigerenzer & Gaissmaier (2011, ARP)

The limit

Single context; replicate before generalising. (our executive and employee training programmes)

Deciding under uncertainty with heuristics — SHR, Bern — Berne
Deciding under uncertainty with heuristics — SHR, Bern — Berne

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