03012nam 2200661 450 991045853630332120200520144314.01-280-45133-50-19-535704-31-60256-050-1(CKB)1000000000363291(EBL)271627(OCoLC)252558962(SSID)ssj0000174918(PQKBManifestationID)11169414(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000174918(PQKBWorkID)10189081(PQKB)10545925(MiAaPQ)EBC4701862(MiAaPQ)EBC271627(Au-PeEL)EBL4701862(CaPaEBR)ebr11273314(CaONFJC)MIL45133(OCoLC)960165945(EXLCZ)99100000000036329120161011h19961996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHuman judgment and social policy irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice /Kenneth R. HammondNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1996.©19961 online resource (449 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-514327-2 0-19-509734-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Contents; Introduction; I: RIVALRY; 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment; 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation; 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis; II: TENSION; 4. Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence; 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence; III: COMPROMISE AND RECONCILIATION; 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise; 7. Task Structure and Cognitive Structure; 8. Reducing Tension Through Complementarity; IV: POSSIBILITIES; 9. Is It Possible to Learn by Intervening?10. Is It Possible to Learn from Representing?11. Possibilities for Wisdom; 12. The Possible Future of Cognitive Competence; 13. Rivalry, Tension-Forever?; Conclusion; Some Conjectures About Competence; Epilogue; Notes; References; Indexes; Author Index; Subject IndexThis work focuses on how social policy grows out of the policymaker's judgment about what to do, what can be done, and what ought to be? Answers necessarily emerge from human judgment, and from human error and the unavoidable uncertainty in the world.Social policyDecision makingJudgmentUncertaintyElectronic books.Social policyDecision making.Judgment.Uncertainty.302.3Hammond Kenneth R.959415MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458536303321Human judgment and social policy2173929UNINA