Friday, February 4, 2011

0 Quote on gathering knowledge and decision making

"Anyone who has a lot of information, thinks a lot, and by thinking increases his understanding of a situation, will have not less, but more trouble coming to a clear decision. To the ignorant, the world looks simple. ...Once we gather a little information, however, we run into trouble. We ... become more acutely aware [of] what we don’t know. This probably explains why we find so few scientists and scholars among politicians. It probably also explains why organizations tend to separate their information-gathering and decision-making branches. ... to provide decision-makers with only the bare outlines of all the available information so that they will not be hobbled by excessive detail when they are obliged to render decisions." 

Dietrich Dorner, The Logic of Failure, 1988

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