Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models

Re:Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform compl... by bujak300 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:06AM (#26326202)

I can recommend the "Simple heuristics that make us smart" book by Gigerenzer, it's an insightful and entertainig read: for this book he and his co-authors put their money where their mouth is and invested on the stock market based on the most simple heuristics imaginable.

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Re:Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform compl... by wrp on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:19AM (#26326663)

Gigerenzer has published several books, but I think that is the best one, because later books are just repeating the ideas. Although I think his ideas are good, they have drawn a lot of criticism. There are several discussion articles in issue 23(5) of Behavioral and Brain Science.

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Re:Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform compl... by daemoncoder on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:53AM (#26326850)

TED Talk

https://youtu.be/-Lg7G8TMe_A

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Re:Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform compl... by cwillu on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @07:19AM (#26327421)

TEDx you mean. Which matters quite a bit, given that there are effectively no restrictions on who can give a TEDx talk :p

Which isn't to say that it's useless, just that the "TED" gatekeeping role isn't actually happening here, instead the gatekeeper is "people who have heard of TEDx", which is very different and imo quite a bit less useful.

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Re:Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform compl... by yboris on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:56AM (#26331095)

Even I had a TEDx talk ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPe9-OM7vgU

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