Rebroadcast: How to cut through the 'noise' that hinders human judgment
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Rebroadcast: If you consult three doctors and get three different opinions, that’s an example of what Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues call “noise.” How do you decide what to do when professionals don’t agree? We’ll cut through the noise and exploring human judgment. Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:55.7 | I'm Megna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:57.8 | Back when I was 19 years old, I suddenly suffered from an autoimmune disease known as idiopathic |
| 1:05.0 | thrombocytopenic perpera. |
| 1:07.9 | It's a mysterious ailment where my immune system was attacking my own blood platelets. |
| 1:13.8 | And it was pretty serious. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, the first doctor I saw said, we don't really know what causes this, so I recommend |
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