“Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.” DecisionStudyMovementParticularActivityEvidenceTradeDecision MakingMonkeysAccumulationAccuracyNeuronsTrade Offs Author:Patricia Churchland
“I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.” KnowsWantBelieveFactsI BelieveDecisionEvidenceI Believe InDecision Making Author:Hillary Clinton
“There seems to be a concern about whether the public appreciation of science has eroded to a point where it has removed science from public debate and public decision making. Whether the public has come to regard evidence as optional.” SeemsDecisionEvidenceConcernRegardAppreciationDebateDecision MakingOptional Author:Rush D. Holt, Jr.
“People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.” PeopleTryingReasonSpeakDecisionEvidenceFinancialMedicalDecision MakingBetter LifeRumorBetter PersonReally True Author:Daniel Levitin