David Brooks 'Does Decision-Making Matter?'

David Brooks, of The New York Times, opens his opinion-ed “Does Decision-Making Matter?” with a powerful story about Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Through his sharing of the experiences between these two, he leads into his thesis, “demonstrated that human decision-making is biased in systematic, predictable ways.” (Brooks) The author then continues with his analysis of their lives, and ponders how Kahneman and Tversky reached their views on decision-making they express in their works. Brooks points out that both men never faced any major decisions, rather the changes in their life came about because of outside forces. He then expresses the issues he with advice-giving, in addition to other influences, which are followed by a series of rhetorical