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The Psychology of Why Prediction Can Be So Hard

The Morgan Housel Podcast

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The Challenges of Forecasting and the Sunk Cost Fallacy

This chapter explores the challenges of making accurate predictions, particularly how incentives can skew decision-making. Through the example of a retail stock analyst's oversight regarding Amazon's AWS, it highlights the dangers of the sunk cost fallacy and the struggle to adapt predictions based on new information.

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