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Tag Archives: snap decisions
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
The premise of Blink is that human beings are good at making instantaneous and generally quite accurate decisions based on very little information. In some cases, apparently, when we have more information, the accuracy of our decisions does not increase … Continue reading