Fifty years ago, after helping a bunch of nuclear engineers at General Electric figure out whether they should add a superheater to a new reactor, engineering professor Ronald Howard sat down to analyze what he’d just done. “Decision analysis,” he called it, and described it as “a logical procedure for the balancing of the factors that influence a decision” that factored in “uncertainties, values, and preferences.”
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