Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment Maxine Anderson Nikki must be the master

Nikki must be the master of her own escape

The temptation of the digital age is to fix everything - from crime to corruption to pollution to obesity - by digitally quantifying

Several essays deal more specifically with radical critiques and appropriations of the picturesque in the nineteenth century

explore their painful pasts

In an instance of remarkable serendipity

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment Maxine Anderson Nikki must be the masterImagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indistinguishable job applicants or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to answer the phone. Now imagine