Scientific decision making tasks

The following resource is useful to use when teaching Business students about scientific decision making. The presentation contains 2 respective tasks for students to complete, either individually or in pairs. It can be played on the board and/or given to students as worksheets.

Slide 1 tasks students with thinking of advantages and disadvantages of scientific decision making vs. Intuition decision making. Extension question for fast working students in getting them to evaluate which method is best and why.

Slide 2 provides three fictional management scenarios and students need to explore how their decisions are short-termism and effects on the business in the short and long term. Extension question for fast working students in getting them to think how scientific decision making processes and methods could be applied to each scenario.

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