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3 unusual facts about Gerd Gigerenzer


Bounded rationality

Gerd Gigerenzer opines that decision theorists have not really adhered to Simon's original ideas.

Cognitive bias

Alternatively, critics of Kahneman and Tversky such as Gerd Gigerenzer argue that heuristics should not lead us to conceive of human thinking as riddled with irrational cognitive biases, but rather to conceive rationality as an adaptive tool that is not identical to the rules of formal logic or the probability calculus.

Max Planck Institute for Human Development

#Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (Managing Director: Gerd Gigerenzer)


Ecological rationality

Independently of Gerd Gigerenzer, Vernon Smith has developed his own account of ecological rationality.

Take-the-best heuristic

Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel Goldstein discovered that the heuristic did surprisingly well at making accurate inferences in real-world environments, such as inferring which of two cities is larger.


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