From: Yahoo
Why College Students Make Better Decisions Than Intelligence Agents
July 22, 2013
Yahoo:
Who would you trust with the lives of hundreds of people: federal intelligence agents or a bunch of college students?
At Cornell University, psychologist Valerie Reyna wanted to test whether intelligence agents were susceptible to a type of decision-making bias people accrue as they get older. It’s called fuzzy thinking. As our life experience grows more robust, we tend to make decisions off of gists, rather than analytical lines of thought.
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