Streetlights and Shadows by Gary A. Klein - ISBN: 9780262516723
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An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble—and why experience can’t be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.

Streetlights and Shadows

Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2011

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Summary

An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble-and why experience can’t be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methodsIn making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines-gather as much information as possible, comp…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262516723
ISBN-10:0262516721
Author:Gary A. Klein
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:30 September 2011
Weight:476g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 22mm
Series:Streetlights and Shadows
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Critics Review

“I know of no one who combines theory and observation–intellectual rigor and painstaking observation of the real world–so brilliantly and gracefully as Gary Klein.”–Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Blink – Malcolm Gladwell “Gary Klein has taken aim at attempts to base decision making on analytic reasoning. To his credit, he does not claim that analytic decision models are useless. He argues that they are limited, and he shows how and why. Klein shows the importance of human understanding and experience as alternatives to analytic models, especially in complex and dynamic situations. He makes his point with many excellent examples, drawn both from his own extensive experience and from the literature. This is a book that should be read by anyone with a serious interest in how decisions ought to be made, whether by humans or machines.” Earl Hunt , Professor Emeritus, University of Washington “I know of no one who combines theory and observation–intellectual rigor and painstaking observation of the real world–so brilliantly and gracefully as Gary Klein.” Malcolm Gladwell , author of Outliers and Blink

About The Author

Gary A. Klein

Gary Klein is Senior Scientist at MacroCognition LLC. He is the author of The Power of Intuition, Seeing What Others Don’t, Working Minds- A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (with Beth Crandall and Robert R. Hoffman), and Streetlights and Shadows- Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, the last two published by the MIT Press.

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