Jack McDevitt Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

  Jack McDevitt

  Issues, Decision, Going Away

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

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  Decision, Information, Made

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

• There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male groups did a bit less well, and that mixed groups did most poorly of all, by a substantial margin. It appeared that, when women were present, testosterone got the upper hand and men took greater risks than they might otherwise. Correspondingly, women in the mixed group tended to revert to roles, becoming more passive, and going along with whatever misjudgment the males might perpetrate.

  Jack McDevitt

  Intelligent, Men, Hands

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.463, Penguin

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