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#233 - Annie Duke - How To Make Better Decisions

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Specificity in a Decision Process

A good decision process breaks things into the component parts. Andrew Mobison and Michael Mobison did a great survey where they actually just had a whole bunch of people online like answer when I say this word what probability do I actually intend? It turns out somewhere between 20 and 80 percent of the time, it's a pretty even spread across strangely so yeah it's like they're totally useless words but think about how often you're using those kinds of useless words right?" "I'm trying to find out maximally where we have a dispersion of opinion which I can't do," he says.

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