ABranco comments on Fundamentally Flawed, or Fast and Frugal? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 20 December 2009 09:02:29PM 1 point [-]

The "recognition heuristic" tends to work surprisingly well for stock picking, or so I've heard.

Find a bunch of "ordinary" people who have no special knowledge of stock picking, give them a list of companies, and ask them to say which ones they've heard of. Stocks of companies people have heard of tend to do better than stocks that people haven't heard of.

Comment author: ABranco 21 December 2009 12:01:34AM 0 points [-]

You're right. It works better if the group interviewed is composed of neither experts nor completely isolated news-averse schizoids.