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Rumore. Un difetto del ragionamento umano by Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony
tophatgirl's review against another edition
4.0
Much like Kahneman's other notable work, "Thinking Fast and Slow", this book is too long for the concepts discussed. The points are interesting and helpful to consider, but the length ultimately diluted the main points by drowning them in endless examples.
deraj727's review against another edition
3.0
It is rare to find a book that is both fascinating and written with style. The ideas in Noise are fascinating and vital. However, the writing is cryptic and academic. I love behavioral science and psychology, I read academic journal articles for fun and listen to talks on weekends. Yet I found myself struggling to muster the motivation to pick up Noise.
If your job involves people making judgments about how long someone spends in prison or whether someone has an illness or if you make any decisions of any important, you should worry about noise. You should worry that any important decision can change depending on who makes it and when they make it. If someone reports to 4 doctors will the same symptoms and gets 4 different diagnoses, you should worry about that. And we should aim to make these decisions more consistent.
Noise matters. However, it’s a shame that such an important and fascinating topic is such a struggle to get through. There will be people out there who should read this book but understandably throw it aside in favor of something more interesting. A book about cupcakes perhaps, or a book about how to make concert.
So, on one hand, bravo to the authors for tackling this important topic. On the other, I suspect I’ll spend a good chunk of time at work convincing people they should take the ideas of noise seriously.
If your job involves people making judgments about how long someone spends in prison or whether someone has an illness or if you make any decisions of any important, you should worry about noise. You should worry that any important decision can change depending on who makes it and when they make it. If someone reports to 4 doctors will the same symptoms and gets 4 different diagnoses, you should worry about that. And we should aim to make these decisions more consistent.
Noise matters. However, it’s a shame that such an important and fascinating topic is such a struggle to get through. There will be people out there who should read this book but understandably throw it aside in favor of something more interesting. A book about cupcakes perhaps, or a book about how to make concert.
So, on one hand, bravo to the authors for tackling this important topic. On the other, I suspect I’ll spend a good chunk of time at work convincing people they should take the ideas of noise seriously.
jojo_action's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
3.0
The topic was very interesting and a very fitting follow-up on Kahneman's last great hit
Noise is a invisible enemy and we as humans are very bad at noticing it. So to dedicate some attention to it is really insightful and necessary.
BUT I have to agree with most of the reviews: this could have been an essay or journal entry. Even in the chapters themselves a lot of repetition and unnecessarily long explantation of easy concepts were given. Let alone the amount of repetition in the whole of 400 pages.
20 pages of setting up the idea, presentation of some studies and then the noise-audit and decision hygiene template would have been better. Maybe with a summary and some room for the opposition.
Noise is a invisible enemy and we as humans are very bad at noticing it. So to dedicate some attention to it is really insightful and necessary.
BUT I have to agree with most of the reviews: this could have been an essay or journal entry. Even in the chapters themselves a lot of repetition and unnecessarily long explantation of easy concepts were given. Let alone the amount of repetition in the whole of 400 pages.
20 pages of setting up the idea, presentation of some studies and then the noise-audit and decision hygiene template would have been better. Maybe with a summary and some room for the opposition.
agraham96's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.5
Several times while reading this book I was blown away by real life examples and research on the topic. Unfortunately, aside from those, and one or two chapters (I found the chapters on decision Hygiene especially interesting), the book was far too dense and repetitive. It sometimes felt like the authors had a page number target and had to stretch out the core ideas far past what was necessary. That being said, it was definitely an interesting exploration of something that deserves more attention and I will likely be thinking about (and hopefully applying) the core ideas for years to come.
waxwingslane's review against another edition
2.0
Yet another pop science book where economists try to convince you that they came up with a basic concept. This time: statistical variation.