1. People
are hesitant to challenge experts. They “simply cede their power to decide to
the expert”.
2. “Anxiety,
stress and fear can distort our choices.
Stress makes us less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we
would regularly be and more deferential as well"
3. “All
of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees
with the outcome we want”.
4. “We need to be aware of our natural born optimism, for that harms good
decision-making too”. There is an
interesting example of how people respond to probabilities that are higher or
lower than their expectations in the article.
5. “We need to acknowledge our tendency to incorrectly process challenging news and actively push
ourselves to hear the bad as well as the good”.
I liked the graphic that accompanied the article – shown
below:
The full article is in the link below.
Over the past 3 years as I’ve done many consultations with
doctors, I’ve seen examples of these decision-making traits in myself. It was interesting to read a synopsis of
these behaviors.
