Can rules and algorithms serve to automate our decisions?
... a decision worked out by a group has a greater tendency to be more effective than that of an individual effort
because it is an outcome of collective or cohesive minds.
Individual decision making is best left to skilled decision makers.
Yet, you might wonder, what about the day-to-day small decisions that only the individual himself should make?
Well, these petty situations should mold you in learning to become independent with your decisions.
You don't have to read these unless you wish to ...
... but we might touch upon them in conversation
The review will be divided into five sections:
the theory of riskless choices, the application of the theory of riskless choices to welfare economics,
the theory of risky choices, transitivity in decision making, and the theory of games and of statistical decision functions.
If you are interested in this topic in some depth, you may read
Edwards, W. (1954). The theory of decision making.
(Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1954, pp. 380-417.)
Things we may talk about
how do ethics and loyalty impact an individual's likeliness to decide ethically within an organization?
what kinds of pressures does an individual have to contend with that an organization does not?
(family duties come to mind)
are individual decisions within an organization less important than the decisions made by organizations as a whole?
more important? the same?
Something else
Eliane Elias
Eliane Elias was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and grew up in a musical household. By the time she was 10 she was already a huge jazz fan. ...
Elias and her band brought a little bit of Brazil with this commanding performance of the best of the Brazilian jazz genre.
Watch how the piano keys sit comfortably under Elias' hands, and how the dynamic syncopation in her percussive left hand complements the beautiful melodic lines of her right,
both blending perfectly with the musicianship of her talented band. This superb combination of Afro-Latin rhythms, like samba and bossa nova, with straight-ahead styles make for really infectious music.
(NPR)
