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Effectiveness beats accuracy
Some people emphasize the idea that "believing in true things is Good and believing false things is Bad." But I think the world is more complicated than that. You strive to believe in things that you hope are true or in things that are definitively not always true (e.g. good always triumphs over evil). But whether in politics, religion, investing, ... See more
Kyle Harrison • The Storytelling of Investing
Stuart Evans added
confirmation bias is often the difference between sounding smart and being right. And sometimes something much, much worse.
thekcpgroup.com • The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.”
Daniel Bakalarz added
It’s called the description-experience gap. In study after study, people fail to internalize numeric rules, making decisions based on things like “gut feeling” and “intuition” and “what feels right” rather than based on the data they are shown. We need to train ourselves to see the world in a probabilistic light—and even then, we often ignore the n
... See moreMaria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Why Our Belief Systems Create Misperceptions- Published in The European, Nov 2014
Rivahardtowrite.com
Stuart Evans and added
Sam Liebeskind and added
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It’s called the description-experience gap. In study after study, people fail to internalize numeric rules, making decisions based on things like “gut feeling” and “intuition” and “what feels right” rather than based on the data they are shown. We need to train ourselves to see the world in a probabilistic light—and even then, we often ignore the n
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