Noise. A Flaw in Human Judgment
Abstract read in full at the Crossref item record, which deposits it entire; full text not read. Author order verified at Crossref, Ken J. Gilhooly first, Psychology Department, University of Hertfordshire, with Derek H. Sleeman second, Computing Science Department, University of Aberdeen. Gilhooly, K. J., & Sleeman, D. H. (2022). To differ is human: A reflective commentary on Noise. A Flaw in Human Judgment. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(3), 724-730. doi:10.1002/acp.3941. The psychologists' commentary, and a bounded endorsement whose bound is the interesting part. The authors reflect on the major concepts used to analyse inconsistency, judgment, noise, error and bias, place the book in the wider context of applied cognitive psychology by relating it to error typologies and dual-systems views of thinking, and compare Kahneman and colleagues' heuristics-based approach with the linear-combination approach of Social Judgment Theory, with particular reference to judgment noise. They conclude that the book's main contributions are raising awareness of how pervasive judgment noise is across important real-world areas, a taxonomy of noise types (system versus occasion noise, and level versus pattern noise), and useful ways of reducing noise and so overall error. Read what is not on that list: awareness, a taxonomy and a set of remedies, with no new empirical finding and no new theory. That is a fair and non-adverse reading of what two applied cognitive psychologists think the book contributed, and it is close to the vault's own grading that the spine is a mathematical identity rather than a result.
Abstract read in full at the Crossref item record, which deposits it entire; full text not read. Author order verified at Crossref, Ken J. Gilhooly first, Psychology Department, University of Hertfordshire, with Derek H. Sleeman second, Computing Science Department, University of Aberdeen. Gilhooly, K. J., & Sleeman, D. H. (2022). To differ is human: A reflective commentary on Noise. A Flaw in Human Judgment. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(3), 724-730. doi:10.1002/acp.3941. The psychologists' commentary, and a bounded endorsement whose bound is the interesting part. The authors reflect on the major concepts used to analyse inconsistency, judgment, noise, error and bias, place the book in the wider context of applied cognitive psychology by relating it to error typologies and dual-systems views of thinking, and compare Kahneman and colleagues' heuristics-based approach with the linear-combination approach of Social Judgment Theory, with particular reference to judgment noise. They conclude that the book's main contributions are raising awareness of how pervasive judgment noise is across important real-world areas, a taxonomy of noise types (system versus occasion noise, and level versus pattern noise), and useful ways of reducing noise and so overall error. Read what is not on that list: awareness, a taxonomy and a set of remedies, with no new empirical finding and no new theory. That is a fair and non-adverse reading of what two applied cognitive psychologists think the book contributed, and it is close to the vault's own grading that the spine is a mathematical identity rather than a result.
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Gilhooly, K. J., & Sleeman, D. H. (2022). To differ is human: A reflective commentary on Noise. A Flaw in Human Judgment. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(3), 724-730. doi:10.1002/acp.3941