We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model - Works in Progress
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We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model - Works in Progress
We should not simply trust that algorithms are doing a better job than humans, nor should we assume that if the algorithms are flawed, the humans would be flawless.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
Cognitive Biases — “Tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgments.” (See list of cognitive biases)
medium.com • Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful – Medium
What you do is pretend this is a high school math problem with a single right answer, you solve for the right answer using high school math, and then nobody can argue with you because apparently you haven’t made a decision. You’ve simply followed the data.
This is a massive problem in decision-making. We try to close down the solution space of any p... See more
This is a massive problem in decision-making. We try to close down the solution space of any p... See more