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In one word: Not from experience.

Berndt Brehmer
- 01 Aug 1980 - 
- Vol. 45, Iss: 1, pp 223-241
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The authors argue that the expectation that people will improve their judgments with experience is mistaken and founded on an incorrect conception of the nature of experience, which leads to a far more pessimistic view about people's ability to learn from experience, a view that is in closer correspondence with the facts from studies on clinical judgement.
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This article is published in Acta Psychologica.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 492 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inference & Causality.

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Clinical judgment, clinical training, and professional experience.

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CEO overconfidence, CEO dominance and corporate acquisitions

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Behavioral and organizational considerations in the design of information systems and processes for planning and decision support

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Propositions about the Psychology of Professional Judgment in Public Accounting

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tackle the fundamental psychological modeling of what happens when professional judgments form and deci- ferentially form, in order to make decisions that matter, amid the pressures, constraints, dangers, and opportunities of their everyday environment.
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Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science

TL;DR: It is argued that the “intellectual distance” between the knowledge embodied in research proposals and an evaluator’s own expertise systematically relates to the evaluations given.
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On the psychology of prediction

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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Karl Popper
TL;DR: A collection of classic essays written throughout Popper's illustrious career, expounding and defending his 'fallibilist' theory of knowledge and scientific discovery.
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A study of thinking

TL;DR: A Study of Thinking as discussed by the authors is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance.