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050 00 $aHM73$b.H314 1996
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100 1 $aHammond, Kenneth R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80008054
245 10 $aHuman judgment and social policy :$birreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice /$cKenneth R. Hammond.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1996.
263 $a9603
300 $axi, 436 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 402-425) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIrreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment --$g2.$tDuality of Error and Policy Formation --$g3.$tCoping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis --$g4.$tTension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence --$g5.$tThe Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence --$g6.$tReducing Rivalry Through Compromise --$g7.$tTask Structure and Cognitive Structure --$g8.$tReducing Tension Through Complementarity --$g9.$tIs It Possible to Learn by Intervening? --$g10.$tIs It Possible to Learn from Representing? --$g11.$tPossibilities for Wisdom --$g12.$tThe Possible Future of Cognitive Competence --$g13.$tRivalry, Tension - Forever?
520 $aFrom Dramatic courtroom confrontations to international peace-making missions, the critical role of human judgment - complete with its failures, flaws, and successes - has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgment and its impact on events which require the direction and control of social policy.
520 8 $aDrawing on 50 years of empirical research in judgment and decision making, Hammond examines the possibilities for wisdom and cognitive competence in the formation of social policies, and applies these lessons to specific examples, such as the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the health care debate. Uncertainty, he tells us, can seldom be fully eliminated; thus error is inevitable, and injustice for some unavoidable.
520 8 $aBut the capacity for making wise judgments increases to the extent that we understand the potential pitfalls and their origin. With numerous examples from law, medicine, engineering, and economics, the author presents a comprehensive examination of the underlying dynamics of judgment, dramatizing its important role in the formation of social policies which affect us all.
650 0 $aSocial policy$xDecision making.
650 0 $aJudgment.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070913
650 0 $aUncertainty.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139563
852 00 $boff,leh$hHM73$i.H314 1996