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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right?

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Real Leaders Become Awakeners

The Empowered Buisness

John Nash –- behavioral economist and Nobel Prize recipient – is best known for advancing game theory and the equilibrium principle. the best result comes when everyone in a group (team, market, etc.) However, there is a more optimal paradigm from which leaders can operate. In simple terms, his work showed that ….

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Research: Missing Product Information Doesn’t Bother Consumers as Much as It Should

Harvard Business Review

Theoretically, marketers could take advantage of this information glut to withhold facts and figures they’d prefer we didn’t see. The surgeon could be motivated to hide higher-than-average mortality rates that could drive away patients. We suspected that consumers would be deaf to marketers’ silence.