Stalking the black swan : research and decision making in a world of extreme volatility / / Kenneth A. Posner.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 267 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Forecasting in extreme environments
  • Thinking in probabilities
  • The balance between overconfidence and underconfidence, and the special risk of complex modeling
  • Fighting information overload with strategy
  • Making decisions in real time: how to react to new information without falling victim to cognitive dissonance
  • Mitigating information asymmetry
  • Mapping from simple ideas to complex analysis
  • The power and pitfalls of Monte Carlo modeling
  • Judgment.