Topic
Decision Making
149 published works
Inside Global Tech
UK ICO and The Alan Turing Insitute Issue Draft Guidance on Explaining Decisions Made by AI
By Mark Young, Sam Jungyun Choi
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") has issued and is consulting on draft guidance about explaining decisions made by AI. The ICO prepared the guidance with The Alan Turing Institute,…
Explorations with Information and Technology
Avoid Black & White Decision-Making
By David Whelan
For whatever reason, my post on law libraries blocking access to people from other disciplines struck a chord. As a commenter pointed out, law libraries make decisions that they think…
A Winning Tip
Understand Jurors’ Desire to Improve Things
Faced with a number of options as jurors are when deliberating a verdict, people will often make decisions by translating each option into how they would feel emotionally about the…
Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
Start with Bias and Prejudice – your story must deal with these or you lose!
Impartiality is a myth. So the idea that you will start with an impartial jury or fact finder (maybe a Judge) misses the mark. We all have inherent bias and…
Future Lawyer
Do This…Not That
By rickgeorges
Execupundit.com: Insight. Execupundit thinks it odd that advice he has received not to do something has been more helpful than advice to do something. I don't think it odd at…
The Attorney Marketing Center
What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
By David Ward
You have a problem. An unanswered question. A big decision to make. You want something but don’t know how to get it. What do you do when you don’t know what…
The Faculty Lounge
Cognition Errors for Doctors and Everyone Else
As I have written before, the website Science Based Medicine is a daily must-read for anyone interested in developments in medicine, or simply in critical thinking. The five or six…
Lawyerist
Podcast #192: Thinking in Bets, with Annie Duke
In this episode with Annie Duke, we talk about the cognitive science behind decision making, how poker is similar to the decision-making process in business, and some of the decision-making…
Law Practice Management by Ellen Freedman
The Art of Making Imperfect Decisions
Indecision and procrastination have quite a bit in common because both presuppose that there is perfection looming ahead in terms of either a process or an answer. One tends to…
Divorce: New York
Divorcing Couples Can Learn a Lesson From Computer Algorithms
By Neil Cahn
Tom Griffiths, psychologist, cognitive scientist and Princeton professor, concludes his TED talk, 3 ways to make better decisions -- by thinking like a computer, with the following lesson: “You can’t control outcomes,…