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Short Paper- BBC Documentary Critique Richa Lodhi MGT 7400 December 4, 2017 Table of Contents 1) BBC Documentary Critique------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 2) Summary------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 3) References---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 BBC Documentary Critique The BBC Documentary is about how human beings actually make decisions and how cognitive biases affect their decision-making ability. Decision making is an important part of one’s life. There is a battle between intuition and logic when one makes a decision. The battle goes on when one makes a small decision like what to eat to when one makes a big decision about whom to marry. One makes between 2000-10,000 decisions in a day. The Documentary introduces one to the scholarly work of Professor Danny Kahneman from the Princeton University who has been researching the field of decision-making for the last 40 years. Professor Kahneman uses puzzles to understand the decision-making process. He says that the puzzle of the New York cab drivers can give an insight into how cognitive biases affect our decision- making ability. He says that logically the cab drivers should spend more time working on a rainy day than on a sunny day if

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