COMMENT:If human judgment and decision making is so error prone, how can we trust any of the judgments we make, and how can we trust science? Faust's answer is that while we must be aware of our tendency to be fooled, there are methods that can be applied to avoid those errors. For example, the natural tendency is to look for confirming evidence, and this applies to scientists as well as the lay public. The method of science, however, stresses looking for evidence that refutes a hypothesis. This book is a good synthesis of the experimental data on decision making, and the methods that science can apply to overcome those limitations. A working scientists' guide to the philosophy of science.
