Quotes About Judgment

You want people to make sure to get the stupid stuff right. Yet you also want to leave room for craft and judgment and the ability to respond to unexpected difficulties that arise along the way.

Human judgment, even expert human judgment, falls well short of certainty.

the studies show that you're better off sticking with the computer's judgment.

Doctors with high confidence in a judgment they made proved no more accurate than doctors with low confidence.

that many decisions made by physicians appear to be arbitrary—highly variable, with no obvious explanation.

under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success. There must always be room for judgment, but judgment aided—and even enhanced—by procedure.

A good computer program consistently and automatically gives each factor its appropriate weight.

So what else was there but to biopsy?

and when we decide by instinct

No one would have faulted him for doing either.

Human beings have an ability to simply recognize the right thing to do sometimes. Judgment, Klein points out, is rarely a calculated weighing of all options, which we are not good at anyway, but instead an unconscious form of pattern recognition.

Everyone understands, though, that a great deal of uncertainty about what to do for people will always remain.

Wisdom is prudent strength.

People seemed to have two different selves--an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in time, the worst moment and the last one.

The earliest portions to shrink are generally the frontal lobes, which govern judgment and planning, and the hippocampus, where memory is organized. As a consequence, memory and the ability to gather and weigh multiple ideas—to multitask—peaks in midlife and then gradually declines.

I had to wonder if we were right to operate on him.

He's a fine doctor," people will say, "but sometimes he has his moments.

was willing to do what everyone else was extremely reluctant to do: to judge (or, as he prefers to say, to "assess") a fellow doctor.

Sometimes, of course, the difference between one option and another isn't especially significant.

When should we try to fix and when should we not?

knew I was letting myself be swayed by a single, recent, anecdotal case.

He's too obese, I thought to myself.

It is a reality of medicine that choosing to not do something—to not order a test, to not give an antibiotic, to not take a patient to the operating room—is far harder than choosing to do it.

People seemed to have two different selves—an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in time, the worst moment and the last one. The remembering