Our brain uses statistics to calculate confidence, make decisions

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 14:21 in Psychology & Sociology

The brain produces feelings of confidence that inform decisions the same way statistics pulls patterns out of noisy data. This feeling of confidence is central to decision making, and, despite ample evidence of human fallibility, the subjective feeling relies on objective calculations.

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