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I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy—that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

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Risk-savvy citizens are indispensable pillars of a society that is ready for positive liberty.

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Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Gerd Gigerenzer

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Born: September 3, 1947 (age 77)
Bio: Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making.
Known for:
  1. Gut Feelings (2007)
  2. Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions (2014)
  3. Simple heuristics that make us smart (1999)
  4. Reckoning with Risk (2002)

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