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Do We Hold Algorithms To Higher Standards Than Humans?

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“This could deepen existing structural injustices, skew power balances further, threaten human rights and limit access to resources and information.” In other words, there are some things that are just not really possible to know.

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Daniel Kahneman: Beware the “inside view”

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To read the complete article, check out the abundance of other free resources, obtain information about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article, featured in The McKinsey Quarterly published by McKinsey & Company.

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7 Ways for Leaders to Deal With Bias

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Psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls it “System 1” thinking, an “effortless, often unconscious process that infers and invents causes and intentions, neglects ambiguity, suppresses doubt, and uses similarity rather than probability.” As you read about these five common biases, think about your workplace. We’re all biased.

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3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

Leading Blog

Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on behavioral economics, calls them System 1 and 2. These include managing individual and group relationships, logical reasoning, probabilistic thinking, and learning new information and patterns of thinking and behavior. Roughly speaking, we have two thinking systems.

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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

W E HAVE more recorded information about leadership now than at any other time in history. In all of this information there is the sense too, that perhaps we have lost the wisdom we need and that maybe some new thing will help us to avoid what we already know and don’t want to do. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

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NUMBERSENSE: A book review by Bob Morris

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NUMBERSENSE: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage Kaiser Fung McGraw-Hill (2013) How to cope with an information blizzard that has become a data tsunami I agree with an observation by Mark Twain: “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli […].

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How To Remove Biases From Algorithms

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As Daniel Kahneman illustrates in Noise , AI-based systems can be effective in reducing the variability in decision making, but they nonetheless suffer from the biases introduced by the quality of the data used to train the algorithms.

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