Cognitive Risk is a book about the least understood but most pervasive risk to mankind – human decision-making. Cognitive risks are subconscious and unconscious influence factors on human decision-making: heuristics and biases.
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The original edition of this book has been out of print for some years. The appear ance of the present second edition owes much to the initiative of Yves Nievergelt at Eastern Washington University, and the support of Ann Kostant, Mathematics Editor at Birkhauser.
Crazy golf was invented for women to stop them from playing real golf. Treadmills were invented to punish prisoners. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Adidas and Puma were created by Nazi brothers. Play-doh was invented to remove soot from wallpaper.
While monitoring an emergency line, a vigilant FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House.
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