Week 5 Decision Making

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Below you will find Week 5 assigned readings to pull an article from for this discussion

Learning Activity #1 Please cite to all sources in your responses.

This reveals the insight that most individuals do not examine every possible alternative but instead draw on experience and rules of thumb. Most of us, it turns out, are susceptible to what psychologists call cognitive biases: decision traps that can cause us to make systematic mistakes when making choices. You also learn that intuition is more than just a gut instinct and represents instead a powerful pattern recognition capability.

Debate the following statement: The purpose of using a process in making a decision is to verify what your instincts have already told you is best.

Using the articles from this week’s assignments debate that pros and cons of the statement above. Be sure to “sell” your point of view. This means use the material in a way the supports your premise. Don’t quote it per se unless you intend to use a statement for emphasis.

Pretend you are talking to someone and you have to get your points across as strongly as possible. Select your words carefully to give impact to the best argument while again using language to deemphasize the weakest of your points. Hide your weakest argument between the strong and strongest points. Always close with your strongest argument. In selecting your words be careful not to use words which offend but rather ones that paint a vivid picture of your argument. You want a weaker picture painted for the weaker argument because it will highlight the stronger arguments by contrast.

NEVER USE PERSONAL PRONOUNS and NEVER USE I THINK, I FEEL, I BELIEVE.

You may be presenting the strongest and most logical case but as soon as the reader thinks it is your opinion and not fact you will find they take what you have to say with a grain of salt. You want to appear the expert so avoid these fateful words.

Finally never argue a negative or the opponent’s point of view. Be positive and genuine! You want “sell” them your point of view not a used car. Make sure that both sides of the argument is covered. To this end students whose last names begin with A-I take the pros while J-Z argues the cons.

Read:

• Soyer, E. and Hogarth, R. M. (2015, May).  Fooled by experience. Harvard Business Review.  Retrieved from Fooled by https://hbr.org/2015/05/fooled-by-experience.

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