When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 2, 2014
For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. Sure, human beings, with “their limited computational abilities and their incomplete information,” as the great social scientist Herbert Simon put it , need to rely on the mental shortcuts and rules of thumb known as heuristics.
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