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Dealing with the cards you’re dealt
Game theory is the study of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty over time. In poker, as in life, the correlation between decision outcome and decision quality is never perfect. Former professional poker player and author Annie Duke explains how real-life decisions aren’t always fair, but we’ve got to do our best when making them.
Learning objectives:
Analyze the blindspots in your decision-making process.
Project confidence while being honest about uncertainty.
Evaluate outcomes with blind analysis.
Establish a decision-making group charter.
Use “Mertonian norms” to improve your understanding.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Use outcome-blind analysis to evaluate the quality of your decisions
Lesson 2: How to project confidence by expressing uncertainty
Lesson 3: Optimal group decision-making in theory (establishing a group charter)
Lesson 4: Optimal group decision-making in practice (the Mertonian norms)
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