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Human judgment and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice, Kenneth R. Hammond
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- Summary
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- From Dramatic courtroom confrontations to international peace-making missions, the critical role of human judgment - complete with its failures, flaws, and successes - has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgment and its impact on events which require the direction and control of social policy. Drawing on 50 years of empirical research in judgment and decision making, Hammond examines the possibilities for wisdom and cognitive competence in the formation of social policies, and applies these lessons to specific examples, such as the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the health care debate. Uncertainty, he tells us, can seldom be fully eliminated; thus error is inevitable, and injustice for some unavoidable. But the capacity for making wise judgments increases to the extent that we understand the potential pitfalls and their origin
- With numerous examples from law, medicine, engineering, and economics, the author presents a comprehensive examination of the underlying dynamics of judgment, dramatizing its important role in the formation of social policies which affect us all
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 436 pages
- Contents
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- 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment
- 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation
- 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis
- 4. Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence
- 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence
- 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise
- 7. Task Structure and Cognitive Structure
- 8. Reducing Tension Through Complementarity
- 9. Is It Possible to Learn by Intervening?
- 10. Is It Possible to Learn from Representing?
- 11. Possibilities for Wisdom
- 12. The Possible Future of Cognitive Competence
- 13. Rivalry, Tension
- Forever?
- Isbn
- 9780195097344
- Label
- Human judgment and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice
- Title
- Human judgment and social policy
- Title remainder
- irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice
- Statement of responsibility
- Kenneth R. Hammond
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- From Dramatic courtroom confrontations to international peace-making missions, the critical role of human judgment - complete with its failures, flaws, and successes - has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgment and its impact on events which require the direction and control of social policy. Drawing on 50 years of empirical research in judgment and decision making, Hammond examines the possibilities for wisdom and cognitive competence in the formation of social policies, and applies these lessons to specific examples, such as the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the health care debate. Uncertainty, he tells us, can seldom be fully eliminated; thus error is inevitable, and injustice for some unavoidable. But the capacity for making wise judgments increases to the extent that we understand the potential pitfalls and their origin
- With numerous examples from law, medicine, engineering, and economics, the author presents a comprehensive examination of the underlying dynamics of judgment, dramatizing its important role in the formation of social policies which affect us all
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hammond, Kenneth R
- Dewey number
- 302.3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HM73
- LC item number
- .H314 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Social policy
- Judgment
- Uncertainty
- Label
- Human judgment and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice, Kenneth R. Hammond
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-425) and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment -- 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation -- 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis -- 4. Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence -- 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence -- 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise -- 7. Task Structure and Cognitive Structure -- 8. Reducing Tension Through Complementarity -- 9. Is It Possible to Learn by Intervening? -- 10. Is It Possible to Learn from Representing? -- 11. Possibilities for Wisdom -- 12. The Possible Future of Cognitive Competence -- 13. Rivalry, Tension -- Forever?
- Control code
- 32926183
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 436 pages
- Isbn
- 9780195097344
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 95035319
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Human judgment and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice, Kenneth R. Hammond
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-425) and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment -- 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation -- 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis -- 4. Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence -- 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence -- 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise -- 7. Task Structure and Cognitive Structure -- 8. Reducing Tension Through Complementarity -- 9. Is It Possible to Learn by Intervening? -- 10. Is It Possible to Learn from Representing? -- 11. Possibilities for Wisdom -- 12. The Possible Future of Cognitive Competence -- 13. Rivalry, Tension -- Forever?
- Control code
- 32926183
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 436 pages
- Isbn
- 9780195097344
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 95035319
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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