“ There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. ” —Ursula K. LeGuin
To listen to some scholars of decision-making, it is a great wonder that humans have survived as long as they have.
We are constantly prone to biases, rely on simplistic and flawed heuristics and, even when trained in statistics, we fail to apply even the most basic rules of probability effectively. Despite this, humans have been a remarkable evolutionary success story and have adapted to many different environments. One of the keys to that success is not so much our ability to adapt physically but instead our skill ...