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Gerd Gigerenzer Quotes

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

Gerd Gigerenzer
Uncertainty
Gerd Gigerenzer (2014). “Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions”, p.26, Penguin

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

Gerd Gigerenzer
Ideas, Welcome, Surprise
Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

Gerd Gigerenzer
Errors, Risk, Information

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

Gerd Gigerenzer
Focus, Risk, Everyday
Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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