The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies" Quotes

“Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on imperfections in”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“including peer review—must be an integral element of the analysis and should not be conducted only after-the-fact; *”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“Analysts must have a "duty of curiosity," and the analytic process must encourage and reward a deep and meaningful understanding of the phenomena”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“obscurity" involves questions that are often unrecognized and not seen to be relevant until they are posed explicitly—which requires curiosity, a quality often in short supply. Data to illuminate obscurities are also often available—even if found in non-traditional sources that require imagination to identify, if procedures to filter signal from noise can be developed, and”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“Recognizing the journeymen’s role as a "keystone species" helps to explain the severe disruptions caused by the disproportionate drawdown in their numbers triggered by the budget cutbacks”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“Neglect of Research This emphasis on current intelligence, with”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“gave birth to the concept of "net-centric warfare" (NCW).[14] Many of the new C4ISR systems (including national systems),”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“by and large, as far as I’m concerned, the science of intelligence is yet to be invented. I don’t see it. It’s not really there."[25] This is not to suggest that rigor, accuracy, clarity, and precision”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“Rubin Vase Illusion":”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“the 9/11 Commission and the SSCI report on Iraqi WMD hardly appear to be convincing root causes of these recent intelligence failures.”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“See Statement by Admiral David Jeremiah (USN, ret.), Press Conference, CIA Headquarters, 2 Jun 1998, for a suggestion that failures by senior managers to make key decisions had been an important factor in the CIA’s failure to warn of an impending Indian nuclear test. (The subject was the "Jeremiah Report" on the 1998 Indian nuclear”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“After all, the dinosaurs were superbly adapted to their environment; even if they perceived the signals of change, they became extinct because they could not adapt to unfamiliar environmental conditions.”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"

“failure to cooperate and collaborate with others; lack of suitable tools and support; misguided incentives and rewards; and an organizational culture and work practices that tolerate second”
― Jeffrey R. Cooper, The CIA's Program for Improving Intelligence Analysis - "Curing Analytic Pathologies"