Decision making.

Each task was made up of many, many, many sub choices of course.

And I'm going to show you why. Dilbert already knows, of course. Dogbert's tech support.

That's a complicated problem that's a lot to know.

It all has to do with when you face what I call the INCA.

They probably were simply following the wisdom that has come down through the ages, this adage that when you're making decisions, especially decisions of importance, it's best to be in charge, it's best to be in control, it's best to be in the driver's seat.

I appreciate a man who's calm and careful In his decision making.

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The yellow line shows us the most likely path.

He decided to submit his resignation.

Politicians have no technical understanding, and thus provide no value when arriving at a decision.

You're right and I defer to your decision.

For the sake of our health, our wealth and our collective security, it's imperative that we keep the independent decision making parts of our brains switched on.

We even put out a house, designed specially for people to gather

Why would we use that verb, it doesn't feel right?

And their managers, who didn't have any signature authority or couldn't actually install software, recommended that this actually get bought.

Similarly, people are prone to annoying things

Ken Livingstone was reelected.

The challenge is on to invent new tools and techniques to mine these vast stores, to inform decision making, to improve medical diagnosis, and otherwise to answer needs and desires of tomorrow's society in ways that are unimagined today.

He submitted his written opinion.

There's a call for a hung jury.

For if we keep our independent decision making part of our brains switched on, if we challenge experts, if we're skeptical, if we devolve authority, if we are rebellious, but also if we become much more comfortable with nuance, uncertainty and doubt, and if we allow our experts to express themselves using those terms too, we will set ourselves up much better for the challenges of the 21st century.

There are so many decisions being made when you walk on the bandstand.

The first phase is in getting better information in.

As a statistician, we are concerned about this, because if we make trading decisions based on what's happening, we might

Your suggestion weighed heavily in this decision.

Statistics comes to our rescue.

He put forward a plan for improving the rate of production.

And I don't know anymore where to put them.

In fact, he basically invented Graph SLAM 200 years ago. He just didn't know about it.

But it will create new opportunities.

The Board of Directors aim is to make decisions regarding business affairs of the company.

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Disagreements are fine, but when a decision's made, fall in or you're gone.

I'm a neuroscientist, and I study decision making.

We let the doctors make all the decisions and take the driver's seat.

As they listened to the experts' voices, the independent decision making parts of their brains switched off.

The simple proposal is that we should have some international standards, which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points that need to be taken in order to harness these resource revenues.

I agreed to the proposal.

He plays little part in the decision making.

Terrifying, because we have stronger opinions about our hand held devices than about the moral framework we should use to guide our decisions.

Okay, the first power is the power of will.

I set up a brief and brought it to the Mayor myself.

So what I did in yellow, both this bright yellow and this