Noise - Why Experts Keep Making the Same Invisible Mistake

The Book Brief Project · Jun 26, 2026 · 12m

Noise begins with a problem that is easy to miss because it does not look like bias. Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein argue that human judgment is often inconsistent in ways we barely notice — two qualified people can look at the same case and reach very different conclusions, and even the same person may decide differently depending on circumstances that should not matter.The book examines what the authors call “noise” across medicine, law, insurance, hiring and other domains where professional judgment carries real consequences. Their argument is that organizations often…