Watch the movie “A Civil Action” (1998 – starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy, John Lithgow, James Gandolfini). It is available on YouTube, Amazon Prime, iTunes, and Google Play. (MAKE SURE TO ASK A QUESTION FOR YOUR TITLE/THESIS STATEMENT and INCLUDE WORK CITED)
Discuss:
(a) what heuristics and biases Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) exhibited in the movie
(b) how Jan Schlichtmann could have outsmarted his own biases.
You are not limited to the heuristics and biases read about in this class; you may invoke any that you have learned about in other classes. Ask your colleagues an intriguing question about high stakes decision making and the ways we make mistakes. A complete Packback post requires replies to two of your colleagues.
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