Decision Making with Insight

Nearly 20 years ago, while teaching statistics courses to MBAs at the University of Chicago, Dr. Savage had an epiphany his students weren't getting it. Try as he might, he wasn't connecting with emerging managers in a way that facilitated the easy absorption and retention of the basic scientific principles of decision making. Then one day while taking flying lessons in a sailplane over the soybean fields of Illinois, it occurred to him that the theory of aerodynamics he'd had to learn was only made truly relevant when he could correlate the reading with experiencing the resistance of the controls in his hands and feeling the movement of the plane through his seat. And instantly he understood what had been missing from his teaching — a "seat-of-the-pants" experience in statistics.