Book Club summary #13 - Gut Feelings
Over the months, one of the themes for book club selections has been self-knowledge; a tradition that goes back to the “Know Thyself” carved into the side of the Temple of the Oracle of Delphi (and surely earlier still). As a side note, “Nothing in Excess” (the old golden mean of Aristotle) and somewhat more verbose “Make a Pledge and Mischief is Nigh” were also apparently engraved into the structure.
Given the interest in self-knowledge, Gerd Gigerenzer’s book Gut Feelings — a primary source for Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink — was a natural fit. Gigerenzer’s data supports the idea that less is more, an idea with enormous implications when it comes to data analysis for the modern researcher / knowledge worker.
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