“An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“We have to learn to live with uncertainty.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“RISK: If risks are known, good decisions require logic and statistical thinking. UNCERTAINTY: If some risks are unknown, good decisions also require intuition and smart rules of thumb.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Many a committee meeting ends with 'We need more data.' Everybody nods, breathing a sigh of relief, happy that the decision has been deferred. A week or so later, when the data are in, the group is no further ahead. Everyone’s time is wasted on another meeting, on waiting for even more data. The culprit is a negative error culture, in which everyone lacks the courage to make a decision for which they may be punished.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“Einstein’s rule is a general way to realize that less can be more in an uncertain world.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Always ask: What is the absolute risk increase?”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
“bigger numbers make better headlines.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy ― that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk."
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome."
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors."
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"Learn by failing, or you fail to learn"
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"Educators often think of building young minds that ideally make no errors. This view is an example of a bad error. Intelligence, creativity, and innovation will cease if people are prohibited from making errors"
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"The more the media reports on health risk, the smaller is the danger for you"
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"In the end, the most important thing is to learn to live with uncertainty and have the courage to form an individual opinion."
— Gerd Gigerenzer
"At the beginning of the twenty-first century, nearly everyone living in an industrial society had been taught reading and writing but not how to understand information about risks and uncertainties in our technological world."
― Gerd Gigerenzer
"I Think, Therefore I Err"
― Gerd Gigerenzer