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Gerd Gigerenzer

Born

in Wallersdorf, Germany

September 03, 1947

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Genre

Nonfiction, Psychology

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Gerd Gigerenzer is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making, especially in medicine. A critic of the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, he argues 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.

Gerd Gigerenzer ist ein deutscher Psychologe und seit 1997 Direktor der Abteilung „Adaptives Verhalten und Kognition“ und seit 2009 Direktor des Harding-Zentrum für Risikokompetenz, beide am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin. Er ist mit Lorraine Daston verheiratet.

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	Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious 3.69 avg rating — 2,323 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions 4.01 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 2013 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You 3.97 avg rating — 667 ratings — published 2002 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms 3.82 avg rating — 487 ratings — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group 3.74 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty (Evolution and Cognition) 4.05 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox by Gerd Gigerenzer (Editor), Reinhard Selten (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context, Series Number 12) by Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter 4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World (Evolution and Cognition) 4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: Envisioning Health Care 2020 by Gerd Gigerenzer (Editor), J.A. Muir Gray (Editor), Talya Miron-Shatz (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

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“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

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“We have to learn to live with uncertainty.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

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