Muddling through: A response to Yates and Goldstein
Organizational Behavior and Human PerformancePublished 1 February 1983
Lee Roy Beach
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Abstract
In response to comments by Yates and Goldstein (Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 31, 26), the developmental history of the Beach, Townes, and Campbell work on birth-planning decisions is recounted. It is argued that in the course of developing a decision aid that people could and would use, deviations from formal decision theoretic considerations were necessary and that the final result is not unreasonable.
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