Book Reading #46 - Why We Make Mistakes

Chapter 6: We’re in the Wrong Frame of Mind 
Summary:
How we view situation can be greatly influenced by framing. The way things appear is not the only thing that can influence decisions we make. Examples are given  with how music influenced what  type of wine was bought. More examples are given to explain how people always hold on to sure things. The example is given by football coaches not going for fourth downs when they are very obtainable. Other factors affect the way we frame decisions such as time. As less time is available for us to complete a task we tend to be more conservative with our decisions.

Discussion:
The examples in this chapter are nice to help give the image of the way framing decisions happens. Its interesting how there are many unscene factors that frame our decisions and how they are somewhat predictable based on what I've read in this chapter.

Chapter 7: We Skim
Summary:
The better we are at something the more likely it is for us to skim something. When we read something we pay more attention to the beginning of everything. Many examples are given to show that many experts miss mistakes due to skimming and are caught by novice users.

Context is very important when viewing situations. When remembering things it is often more remembered when a person is in the place they learned it.

Discussion:
Like all of the other chapters I thought the examples were interesting. The context of special days stood out to me becuase April Fools day was recently and when something odd happened my first thought was "April Fools?".  The beginning of this chapter made me think about the reading for this class and when the reader skims they look for patterns and just assume what words are appearing.