While we all agree that Larry Page and Barack Obama may have to put work first pretty much all the time, we have a long way to go to figure out, as a workforce, those more subtle question.

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We will explore the effects of irrelevant information on our decisions (chapter 7), examine why subtle differences in the way a question is framed lead to different solutions (chapter 8), and discuss how the structure of our environment can cause us to veer off track (chapter 9).

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And the responsible scientists who are asked the question will give a considered answer that's very subtle.

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With a disarming innocence, he would question apparently obvious assumptions, drawing distinctions so subtle that they escaped more conventionally brilliant minds.

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