Sentence examples for irrational decision-making from inspiring English sources

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This book walks you through everyday examples of our fuzzy and irrational decision-making and how to stop making the same mistakes repeatedly.

In the wake of the Brexit referendum, many people across the globe have expressed bewilderment at what they see as Leave voters' irrational decision-making.

IT seems that every week a new book or major newspaper article appears showing that irrational decision-making helped cause the housing bubble or the rise in health care costs.

"Given the fact that North Korea has an irrational decision-making system under a one-man dictatorship," Ms. Park said, "and that Kim Jong-un is an unpredictable character, there is a high possibility that this threat could become a reality".

Fear can lead to costly and irrational decision-making, including the undertaking of behaviors with greater objective risk [1], [43].

But the classic story is this: a family of theorems Dutch book theorems (see entry) and representation theorems (see entry)—are taken to show that any deviation from the three axioms of probability leads to irrational decision-making.

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But it is maybe exacerbated by the irrational decision making of people who are trying to make money".

Management appears to suffer from one or more of several motivational and cognitive biases toward mega-mergers, which can lead to irrational decision making and large-scale destruction of value.

Butterfield went on to say that the irrational decision making is what leads companies to keep hiring computer science dropouts from Stanford and engage in other types of pattern-matching, which "creates a system that in the absence of deliberate conscious intentional effort, is going to perpetuate itself".

But I'm going to focus on how recent technology has aided and abetted the clearly irrational decision making that is part and parcel of being human (or at least of being a guy).

Abundant research has shown that strong emotions, such as anger, lead to impulsive and irrational decision making at the bargaining table.

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