We make fast judgments about what is "normal" and what isn't and often this works in our favor.
The nature of the cop's job is such that he has to make quick judgment calls, and the fastest way to do that is to fall back on stereotypes.
A lot of mountain climbing is about your mental attitude because you will need to make sound, fast judgments about conditions, directions, and safety.
Proprietary trading is harder to defend when it is sheltered by a government guarantee but any bank that acts as a marketmaker between buyers and sellers will end up taking some form of proprietary risk.Faced with this untidy set of choices, a sensible philosophy would not make hard-and-fast judgments about what businesses belong together.
Education is seen as a handy distraction.The kind of reforms the government has in mind, however, are not designed to help young people make critical judgments in a fast-changing, information-driven, global environment.
In addition, participants are faster to make a judgment about two features on separate fragments behind an occluding shape when their experience is consistent with these two features belonging to the same object versus different objects (Zemel, Mozer, Behrmann, & Bavelier, 2002).
It also explains that the company likes to "design/build/test/fly in rapid iteration," so the ideal candidate will "be energetic, adaptable and a fast learner who can make sound judgments in safety-critical situations". Which sounds ominous at best.
But when participants had previous experience with objects with that unusual shape, they were faster to make the perceptual judgment, as if now they interpreted the two features as belonging to the same oddly shaped object.
People who display an attentional bias to the more negative information are significantly faster to make this discrimination judgment for probes that appear in the same area as the negative stimuli compared with probes in the region of the neutral stimuli.
Fed officials make a judgment about how fast the economy can grow without igniting inflation, based on the growth of the working population and improvements in productivity.
