Comments on: Hunch! http://www.thingsontop.com/hunch-595.html Search User Experience Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:19:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel Tunkelang http://www.thingsontop.com/hunch-595.html/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Daniel Tunkelang Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:34:02 +0000 http://delicious.com/url/ba29b7a4c20f90717906353e7c563851#vsandvold#comment-109 Vegard, those are fun books (amd Dan Ariely and Richard Thaler are part of the second generation of heuristics and biases researchers), but I'd recommend you read the Cambridge University collections by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, et al if you have the time. The raw research is fascinating. Vegard, those are fun books (amd Dan Ariely and Richard Thaler are part of the second generation of heuristics and biases researchers), but I’d recommend you read the Cambridge University collections by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, et al if you have the time. The raw research is fascinating.

]]> By: Vegard Sandvold http://www.thingsontop.com/hunch-595.html/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Vegard Sandvold Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:27:26 +0000 http://delicious.com/url/ba29b7a4c20f90717906353e7c563851#vsandvold#comment-108 Hi Ted! I'm also facinated by the irrationality of decision-making, especially what happens when you're faced with a choice between equally relevant options. I read an article in the local newspaper the other day about behavioral economics, and have put two new books on my Amazon wish list that I'm looking forward to read. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions: http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp/006135323X/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I6BC3NXVKS4HO&colid=3D9RPWXS9TGI7 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness: http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/014311526X/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I5SBTDO8TCWHM&colid=3D9RPWXS9TGI7 Let me know what you think of Hunch when you get to try it. Hi Ted!

I’m also facinated by the irrationality of decision-making, especially what happens when you’re faced with a choice between equally relevant options. I read an article in the local newspaper the other day about behavioral economics, and have put two new books on my Amazon wish list that I’m looking forward to read.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions:
http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp/006135323X/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I6BC3NXVKS4HO&colid=3D9RPWXS9TGI7

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness:
http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/014311526X/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=I5SBTDO8TCWHM&colid=3D9RPWXS9TGI7

Let me know what you think of Hunch when you get to try it.

]]> By: Ted Elvhage http://www.thingsontop.com/hunch-595.html/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Ted Elvhage Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:56:33 +0000 http://delicious.com/url/ba29b7a4c20f90717906353e7c563851#vsandvold#comment-107 This is a great topic Vegard - and indeed making decisions is not an easy subject, many people have tried to manage it. Studies and theories about decisions usually focus on factors involved in what an acceptable solution could/should be. One usually thinks it's a linear, factbased process. But decisions are not made in a vacuum, they are made within very complex and idiosyncratic systems that involve much more than just a problem, a need and a solution. I think Hunch seems to be a great initiative - and I look forward to learning more about how they also take into account the criteria and and system elements that are unique for each and every decision making system. Ie the "stuff" outside the identified problem that keep us doing what we do without changing allthough it's obvious we should have - a long time ago, myself just as guilty as everyone else... This is a great topic Vegard – and indeed making decisions is not an easy subject, many people have tried to manage it. Studies and theories about decisions usually focus on factors involved in what an acceptable solution could/should be. One usually thinks it’s a linear, factbased process. But decisions are not made in a vacuum, they are made within very complex and idiosyncratic systems that involve much more than just a problem, a need and a solution.

I think Hunch seems to be a great initiative – and I look forward to learning more about how they also take into account the criteria and and system elements that are unique for each and every decision making system. Ie the “stuff” outside the identified problem that keep us doing what we do without changing allthough it’s obvious we should have – a long time ago, myself just as guilty as everyone else…

]]> By: Vegard Sandvold http://www.thingsontop.com/hunch-595.html/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Vegard Sandvold Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:29:50 +0000 http://delicious.com/url/ba29b7a4c20f90717906353e7c563851#vsandvold#comment-106 I feel privileged :-) Eager to see for myself what Hunch is about. It will have to wait for tomorrow, though. Off to a party now. Thanks for the invite! I feel privileged :-) Eager to see for myself what Hunch is about. It will have to wait for tomorrow, though. Off to a party now. Thanks for the invite!

]]> By: Daniel Tunkelang http://www.thingsontop.com/hunch-595.html/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Daniel Tunkelang Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:11:50 +0000 http://delicious.com/url/ba29b7a4c20f90717906353e7c563851#vsandvold#comment-105 Your invite should be waiting in your inbox. :-) Your invite should be waiting in your inbox. :-)

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