Surely you already know, but an interesting book about cognitive biases and lack of self-knowledge is "Predictably Irrational" (Dan Ariely). It's specially interesting too see how everybody unconsciously defines himself and his preferences highly influenced by the context, the latest information received, or actions done recently.
Ariely confronts our most "rational" decisions with experiments in which demonstrates that in most cases, they are not so rational and are highly anchored by external influences. Another really interesting book is "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (Daniel Kahneman), also on cognitive biases and unpredictable behavior that can come from the prevalence of our System 1 (intuitive, fast, working memory) over System 2 (more rational, methodic, long-term memory), specially in case of stress or similar circumstances. But I'm still reading and cannot comment much more about it ;) Tona On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Treviranus, Jutta (Academic) < [email protected]> wrote: > It's interesting that the learning example only states that there is no > data on this. Is that because we haven't yet found a way to measure > individual outcomes given the diversity of conditions and the very small n > of any one condition? > > Jutta > > On 2013-02-05, at 11:24 AM, "Mitchell, Jessica" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/opinion/brooks-the-philosophy-of-data.html?_r=0 > > > > > > > > Jess > > _______________________________________________________ > > fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > > see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work > > -- Tona Monjo LATENT, User Experience Design http://www.latent-design.com T (+34) 654 402 387 Skype: tona.monjo Twitter: tona_monjo Blog: *http://tonamonjo.net/*
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