J G Thornton
Decision analysis has its weaknesses: it may oversimplify problems, and probability and utility estimates may be biased. However, the alternative--decision-making by intuition--is likely to oversimplify problems even more and to be subject to even greater bias. Clinicians and patients often ignore major items of data, they handle probabilistic information badly, and their decisions are subject to a number of well-documented biases (Tversky and Kahnemann, 1974). Concern over these problems is not a reason to avoid decision analysis...
December 1990: Baillière's Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology