Phys.org July 13, 2018
A team of researchers in the US (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) discovered that being initially uncertain when faced with making critical mission-related decisions based on various forms of information may lead to better overall results in the end. According to the researchers as human cognition is limited in detecting good or bad information or processing large volumes of information, errors are inevitable; if an individual is not biased towards false information, systematic errors do not cascade in the network; high uncertainty can even help the decision maker to maximize the effect of small pieces of good information and less information is better, particularly when the quality of information is not guaranteed… read more.
The key idea that making decisions under uncertainty may not be such a bad thing after all. Credit: US Army Graphic Designer Evan Jensen