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Do you fit the management stereotype?

Chartered Management Institute

Probably the best known experiment into representativeness heuristics was conducted by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 70's. engineering. As it's Friday, and I'm a fun kinda guy, why don't you play along? They asked people to judge the likelihood that a random student, called Tom W, studied a particular subject at university.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control. Suppose you’re an engineer and you’re building a bridge. So what you might do as an engineer is try to build your bridge to be safe in a worst case.

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