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Trusting Judgements: How to Get the Best out of Experts
Mark A. Burgman
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Description for Trusting Judgements: How to Get the Best out of Experts
paperback. Even experienced experts can be biased and overconfident. This book explains how to ensure experts provide reliable scientific advice. Num Pages: 214 pages, 56 b/w illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: JPH; KJM; PDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Policy- and decision-makers in government and industry constantly face important decisions without full knowledge of all the facts. They rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical scientific knowledge gaps. There are unprecedented opportunities for experts to influence decisions. Yet even the most experienced can be over-confident and error-prone, and the hidden risk is that scientists and other experts can over-reach, often with good intentions, placing more weight on the evidence they provide than is warranted. This book describes how to identify potentially risky advice, explains why group judgements outperform individual estimates, and provides an accessible and up-to-date guide to ... Read more
Policy- and decision-makers in government and industry constantly face important decisions without full knowledge of all the facts. They rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical scientific knowledge gaps. There are unprecedented opportunities for experts to influence decisions. Yet even the most experienced can be over-confident and error-prone, and the hidden risk is that scientists and other experts can over-reach, often with good intentions, placing more weight on the evidence they provide than is warranted. This book describes how to identify potentially risky advice, explains why group judgements outperform individual estimates, and provides an accessible and up-to-date guide to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107531024
SKU
V9781107531024
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99-30
About Mark A. Burgman
Mark A. Burgman is the Adrienne Clarke Chair of Botany at the University of Melbourne and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conservation Biology. He has published over 200 refereed articles and seven authored books in ecology, conservation and risk analysis, and has worked in Australia, the United States and Switzerland. In 2006 he was elected to the Australian Academy of Science ... Read more
Reviews for Trusting Judgements: How to Get the Best out of Experts
'Trusting Judgements: How to Get the Best out of Experts … is very clearly and logically structured … this book is written in easy and enjoyable language and very much oriented toward practical needs.' Pierre L. Ibisch, Conservation Biology