That judgment reflects the lessons learned in Iraq, where, with other reporters, I spent years listening to the illusionism of generals "putting lipstick on a pig," as Gen. David H. Petraeus expressed it when it was his time to retrieve what he could from the disaster unfolding there.
Lewis accomplishes this in his usual way, by telling fascinating stories about intriguing people, and leaving readers to make their own judgments about what lessons should be learned.
Still, the suggestion that we can improve expert judgment by applying the lessons of cognitive science and probability theory belongs to the abiding modern American faith in expertise.
We have seen with our clients that leaders who are afraid to acknowledge when they don't have an answer, and who try to mask concerns or mistakes are far less effective than those who hire to meet gaps in their expertise, own any errors in judgment and create constructive lessons from failures.
We hope the judgment serves as a lesson for anyone who follows this path of advocating hate and division".
Biden urged his listeners to question others' judgment, not motives, a lesson he learned after criticizing the motives of Senator Jesse Helms in opposing programs to help the disabled only to learn that Helms and his wife had adopted a disabled teenage stranger who felt rejected by the world.
I care about my students' outcomes great deal, but making judgments about a lesson based on a spurious grid of phrases that defy consistent interpretation has become so lamentably futile there is nothing left to do other than laugh.
The lesson is not that belief and emotion do not generally cohere in moral judgment, but that emotion is itself cognitively complex and can make its own independent and rationally based contribution to moral judgment.
One potential lesson from evolutionary biology, however, is that even if the autonomy assumption equally applies in principle to the sphere of moral judgment, it may be a mistake just to assume that most moral judgment and behavior is in fact a result of the exercise of such autonomous reflection, reasoning and judgment.
My clouded judgment derailed the most important lessons I learned about sexually protecting my health.
