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		<title>Investors Overreact in Times of Uncertainty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The foundation to behavioral economics is the idea that investors are not rational actors: That they overreact to uncertainty, are influenced by immaterial information, and act for all manner of reasons not consistent with their best interests (utility). I found a paper the other day published by The Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/11/23/investors-overreact-in-times-of-uncertainty/</link>
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		<title>Building a Decision Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A decision table is the &#8220;best practice&#8221; tool for doing the following: Breaking a complex decision into component parts. Generating a wide range of interesting choices in each of those sub categories. Creating multiple possible scenarios for answering the larger exam question. Here is a brief tutorial on how to build one. Goal of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/07/28/building-a-decision-table/</link>
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		<title>The Math and Madness of the Afghan War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past decade I have made a living helping people and corporations make smarter decisions.  I say that by way of disclosing my bias when I think about nearly everything.  Yesterday I blogged about General Petraeus&#8217; testimony before the Armed Services Committee in advance of his taking over as the overlord of the &#8220;not war&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/07/01/the-math-and-madness-of-the-afghan-war/</link>
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		<title>Thinking About Unknown Unknowns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful article/interview in the New York Times with David Dunning, one of the rock stars of decision-making . . . you get to be called that, at least by me, if you have an entire principle named after you (Dunning-Kruger Effect).  Donald Rumsfeld said it best but we were too stunned to hear him . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/06/21/thinking-about-unknown-unknowns/</link>
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		<title>Thinking About Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get emails every week asking for permission to reprint, quote, and distribute one or more papers I wrote on decision-making.  It&#8217;s been forever since I actually looked at what you can download on this site so I went back and looked.  Here&#8217;s a snip from a paper on innovation I wrote.  The words seem useful even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/05/03/thinking-about-innovation/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Leak Almost Too Good to be True</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed this or don&#8217;t care, tech blogger gizmodo recently came into possession of a prototype of the latest blockbuster to be next gen iphone setting off a first class 21st century brouhaha.  So why bring it up here? As an exercise in decision-making, three thoughts . . . Thought 1: John Stewart just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/04/29/iphone-leak-almost-too-good-to-be-true/</link>
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		<title>Are You Doing a &#8220;NASA?&#8221; The Perils of Mental Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Decision-making is the means by which we most directly shape our lives. Some decisions we make consciously; many more are “automatic” decisions made in response to stimulus. The first type of decision-making is a distinctly human domain. Other species don’t have the same breadth of cognitive tools, and therefore can’t be described as true decision-makers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/03/13/are-you-doing-a-nasa-the-perils-of-mental-models/</link>
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		<title>Barry Schwartz on the Loss Of Wisdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fine video on the topic of practical wisdom by Barry Schwartz.  I was particularly taken on his point of view on &#8220;practical wisdom.&#8221; &#8220;Practical wisdom,&#8221; Aristotle told us, &#8220;is the combination of moral will and moral skill.&#8221; A wise person knows when and how to make the exception to every rule, as the janitors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2010/03/09/barry-schwartz-on-the-loss-of-wisdom/</link>
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		<title>Everyone Hates Trade-offs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With great care I draw your attention to an article by Lee Siegel called The Zero-Sacrifice Presidency. Obama tells us that we can have quality, universal health care without increasing the deficit. He tells us that he intends to have the 9/11 detainees given a fair trial in a civilian court but assures us that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2009/12/05/everyone-hates-trade-offs/</link>
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		<title>Why We Are Not Good Decision Makers and What To Do About That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Decision making is a distinctly human activity: it is more than an instinctive “stimulus/response.”&#160; Decisions aren’t found under a rock.&#160; They are the result of cognitive processes that we can control.&#160; They are what make us human. Because we are human, and because decision making is a distinctly human activity, decision making is subject to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://decision-quality.com/blog/2009/12/04/why-we-are-not-good-decision-makers-and-what-to-do-about-that/</link>
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