“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”19” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share
Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share
“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share
I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share
“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking… — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share
