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[Link] Countering The Inside View and Making Better Decisions

0 [deleted] 31 May 2015 07:22PM

Great article that systemetizes the process of taking the outside view into 4 steps. Thought LWers might get a kick out of it.

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/05/inside-view-michael-mauboussin/

Comments (4)

Comment author: Elo 01 June 2015 12:59:44PM 1 point [-]

The value statement in the article appears to be; "make predictions, assess the quality of those predictions, adjust your prediction engine, repeat"

Comment author: Dorikka 05 June 2015 05:12:23PM 0 points [-]

Misread: Countering the Inside View Makes You Delicious

Comment author: Clarity 01 June 2015 07:53:23AM *  0 points [-]

Sorry, this was an useless post so now it's gone

Comment author: [deleted] 01 June 2015 08:16:56AM *  0 points [-]

I think that this blog often falls into the trap of too much jargon without enough context, because it uses large chunks of direct quotes.

I don't think that it over reached with reference class forecasting - it seemed to me to do a good job of summarazing. Which step do you feel overreached?