Bias judgments

Daniel Kahneman is notable for his work on biases in human judgement that affects everyday life for all of us.

For example, courtroom judges exercise judgmental biases when one judge is more lenient than another. Business people make judgments whether a candidate is more qualified than another candidate. Bankers judge who will get a loan.

Kahneman argues that judgmental biases are only part of the problem. The other is that judgments are often noisy. Ask ten different judges to suggest a sentence, and you'll get ten different answers.