Heuristics in technoscientific thinking

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (5):752-752 (2000)
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This review of Gigerenzer, Todd, and the ABC Research Group's Simple heuristics that make us smart focuses on the role of heuristics in discovery, invention, and hypothesis-testing and concludes with a comment on the role of heuristics in population growth.

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