A review by kafkaesquire
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony

2.0

Much like Freakonomics, Noise is the sort of hackery that comes from completely divorcing data from the social context. The book is written with the idea that there's too much unnecessary variability in the way various tasks are carried out, but the examples that were used were really inconsistent. there's a lot more context required in handing down sentences as a judge than there is in underwriting insurance contracts. Overall, the book probably would have been more compelling if they had stuck to examples whose results didn't hinge on the decision maker's subjective worldview. Two stars because the descriptions of all the economic principles were nice and I learned about some new concepts