judgment
6 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 15, 2019 by Daniel Kahneman · across every show →
Everything said about judgment, oldest first
Oct 15, 2019
Oct 15, 2019
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Parrish: Rigid operating procedures eliminate thinking and erode judgment over time
“Procedures are basically like an algorithm that you apply given a certain situation, certain inputs. And what I discovered is that it just eliminated thinking because people would go, oh, there's no procedure for the slight deviation from what would happen. An…”
Feb 7, 2023 negative
Dignan: Permission cultures stifle judgment and cause employee inaction
“And permission cultures tend to have a problem, which is that they then have to define everything. Because to your point earlier about judgment, there's no room for judgment in a permission culture, unless you have the permission already. So you get a lot of p…”
Sep 5, 2023
Doshi: Playbooks become standard over time, outperformance always requires judgment
“If everybody could just follow playbooks then you know, and they might be wonderful playbooks, but over time, even wonderful playbooks become the industry standard. So now if you want to outperform, you need something else, and that something else is always ju…”
Jul 22, 2025
Kahneman: Judgment is informal measurement using the mind, creating inherent variability
“We speak of judgment as measurement, but it's measurement where the measuring instrument is your mind, but you do it informally. And because you do it informally, people are going to, are not necessarily going to agree, so wherever we say it's a matter for jud…”