NOISE: A FLAW IN HUMAN JUDGEMENT

When two doctors examine the same patient, why might they reach completely different diagnoses even though they trained at the same hospital, read the same research, and have the same years of experience?

If a judge is in a bad mood because their team lost on Sunday, does that actually change the sentence a defendant receives in court on Monday?

You probably know about bias. But noise is different. Can you explain, right now, what the actual difference is?

Your company has a hiring process, a performance review system, a salary structure. How confident are you that two managers using the same system would produce the same result?

Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his work on how humans make decisions. If his first book shook the academic world, what could possibly be left to say in a follow-up?

For our Watch & Talk sessions, this video sparks discussion around decision making, cognitive bias, workplace consistency, human judgement, and critical thinking.

Ready to watch? Your assumptions are about to get uncomfortable.

Watch the video here (but it’s always more interesting to talk about it 😉):