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An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives. As risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information.

Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is currently director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Summary language: English