Quote of the day
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.
Gerd Gigerenzer
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:
- Gut Feelings (2007)
- Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions (2014)
- Simple heuristics that make us smart (1999)
- Reckoning with Risk (2002)
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