Gerd Gigerenzer Quotes

• We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

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  Uncertainty

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2014). “Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions”, p.26, Penguin

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• Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

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  Ideas, Welcome, Surprise

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

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  Errors, Risk, Information

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• I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

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  Focus, Risk, Everyday

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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