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1. Klick, by Gerd Gigerenzer: (Literature); A new book by Gerd Gigerenzer is something to look forward to. When it was announced that a German version of his new work would appear a half year before the English, I jumped on the opportunity to have ...; Created on 09 October 2021
2. Rationality For Mortals - How People Cope With Uncertainty, by Gerd Gigerenzer: (Literature); This book is basically a collection of 13 revised articles written by Gigerenzer alone or in cooperation with others for a number of publications between 2002 and 2006. People who have read some other ...; Created on 05 March 2015
3. Risk Savvy, by Gerd Gigerenzer: (Literature); In NVVK Info of February 2015 the review of Gerd Gigerenzer's "Risk Savvy" can be found: Translated version: This time I would like to pay some attention to an author and scientist who seems to be ...; Created on 27 February 2015
4. Reckoning With Risk, Learning To Live With Uncertainity, by Gerd Gigerenzer: (Literature); A quite interesting and enjoyable book that I accidently picked up while strolling through the University book store at NTNU. Most books on risk in my bookshelf are either safety or finance oriented, Gigerenzer ...; Created on 10 June 2014
5. Gut Feelings - Short Cuts To Better Decision Making, by Gerd Gigerenzer: (Literature); This book was on my “things to do” list for quite a while (triggered by Gladwell’s “Blink” and Gigerenzer’s “Risk” book) and went substantially up to the top of the list after “Antifragile” and Taleb’s ...; Created on 09 June 2014
6. The Science Of Fear, by Daniel Gardner: (Literature); ... Daniel Kahneman and Gerd Gigerenzer (especially Slovic and Kahneman) and explains this in a very accessible and easy to understand way (he even draws in some Ulrich Beck!). Those who have read the work ...; Created on 27 October 2016
7. Das Risikoparadox: Warum wir uns vor dem Falschen fürchten, by Ortwin Renn: (Literature); ... meet some people we have encountered before, including Kahneman, Slovic and Gigerenzer. After these subjects, Renn draws the explanation of why we perceive things the way we do into a more sociological ...; Created on 27 October 2016
8. Safety: Surrogates or the Real Deal?: (Blog); ... wary when you are presented with a series of percentages that all serve to support a certain point of view. As Gerd Gigerenzer has taught us, we have always to ask “percentage of what”. And just check ...; Created on 26 June 2016
9. Learning Lab - Critical Thinking in Safety (part 3): (Publication); ... his bounded rationality, Gary Klein with naturalistic decision making and people like Gerd Gigerenzer. These scholars also tend to have more attention for success than for failure. A great contribution ...; Created on 28 January 2016
10. The Signal And The Noise, by Nate Silver: (Literature); ... this article from the Newyorker). A similar point is also found in chapter 11 of Gigerenzer’s “Rationality For Mortals”, by the way. One major pitfall for this ‘traditional’ way of approaching data is ...; Created on 09 December 2015
11. Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre: (Literature); ... that deal with explanations and examples of frequently seen human misperceptions and mistakes. By the way, if you’ve read a couple of books discussed on this website (e.g. from Gigerenzer, Mlodinow or ...; Created on 12 July 2015
12. The Drunkard’s Walk - How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow: (Literature); ... one of the many subjects that will pass in the course of 219 pages. People who have read a number of popular scientific books on psychology and mathematics like Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast And Slow”, Gigerenzer and ...; Created on 22 June 2015
13. Paper NVVK Congres 2015: (Publication); ... job requirements for a safety professional. “Critical thinking requires knowledge” [Gigerenzer, 2013]. Besides knowledge it’s at least as important to question your beliefs every once in a while. So take ...; Created on 07 May 2015
14. Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty, by Dylan Evans: (Literature); ... skewed in one direction. [cb: I chould check what Kahneman, or Gigerenzer, use as the definition, but I would personally define bias without ‘mistake’ – isn’t it simply a tendency to see things in a certain ...; Created on 14 April 2015
15. Harding Center for Risk Literacy: (Search - Web Links / Safety); A great resource for thinking and communicating about risk and uncertainty. This institute is connected to the Max Planck Institute and Gerd Gigerenzer (whose books are reviewed and recommended elsewhere ...; Created on
16. Gigerenzer: (Tags); Gigerenzer; Created on 09 June 2014
17. Gut Feelings - Short Cuts To Better Decision Making, by Gerd Gigerenzer: (Article tagged with: Gigerenzer); This book was on my “things to do” list for quite a while (triggered by Gladwell’s “Blink” and Gigerenzer’s “Risk” book) and went substantially up to the top of the list after “Antifragile” and Taleb’s ...; Created on 09 June 2014
18. Harding Center for Risk Literacy: (Web Link tagged with: Gigerenzer); A great resource for thinking and communicating about risk and uncertainty. This institute is connected to the Max Planck Institute and Gerd Gigerenzer (whose books are reviewed and recommended elsewhere ...; Created on 14 July 2014
19. Klick, by Gerd Gigerenzer: (Article tagged with: Gigerenzer); A new book by Gerd Gigerenzer is something to look forward to. When it was announced that a German version of his new work would appear a half year before the English, I jumped on the opportunity to have ...; Created on 09 October 2021
20. Learning Lab - Critical Thinking in Safety (part 3): (Article tagged with: Gigerenzer); ... his bounded rationality, Gary Klein with naturalistic decision making and people like Gerd Gigerenzer. These scholars also tend to have more attention for success than for failure. A great contribution ...; Created on 28 January 2016

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