A structured interview system that replaced gut-feeling judgment with fixed questions about specific traits
In 1955, long before any Nobel, Lieutenant Kahneman was ordered to fix the army's nearly useless recruit-screening interviews. Instead of letting officers form a single overall impression, he made them ask the same factual questions about a handful of separately scored traits. The structured method predicted soldiers' performance far more accurately and stayed in use for decades, planting the seed of his career-long argument that systems beat unaided intuition.
