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Gerd Gigerenzer

(1947) Psychologist

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Gerd Gigerenzer is a psychologist.

Quick Facts About Gerd Gigerenzer

Born: September 3, 1947
Profession: Psychologist

About Gerd Gigerenzer

[Wikidata] German psychologist... | [Wikipedia] Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, director of the Harding Center

Quotes by Gerd Gigerenzer

“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain”

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Children

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Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

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Great thinkers

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“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”

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Risk

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We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

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Doubt

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Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

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Cognition

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I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and…

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Day life

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“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform…

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Philosophy

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