Diagnosis of tolerance to uncertainty. The scales of D. Maklaina

The very concept of uncertainty is difficult to fits into the picture of the world of most people. D. Kaneman in research awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics (Kaneman, Slovik, Tverski, 2005), and N. Taleb (2012) in his book “Black Swan”, which received worldwide recognition, revealed many mechanisms for our simplification of the picture of reality, in particular , information of uncertainty to certainty. “Our mind is an excellent explanatory machine that can find meaning in almost anything, to interpret any phenomenon, but is completely unable to accept the idea of ​​unpredictability.” In another book, N. Taleb substantiates the significance of the psychological characteristics in the modern world, which he, in lack of a more suitable term, calls “anti -chipility”. The essence of anti-capacity, its uniqueness is that it allows us to work with the unknown, do something in conditions when we do not understand what exactly we do-and achieve success