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A Correction for
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Forecasted
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OVERCONFIDENCE
THE ILLUSION OF UNDERSTANDING
The Google experience and you think you know it all
People knew 2008 financial crisis!!!
In fact we understand the past less than we believe we do which is the
root cause of illusion.
Recipes for success
Why do investors, both amateur and professional, The illusions of validity and skill are supported by a
stubbornly believe that they can do better powerful professional culture
than the market, contrary to an economic theory that
most of them accept, and contrary to what
they could learn from a dispassionate evaluation of their
personal experience?
The illusion of Pundits
Those who know more forecast very slightly
better than those who know less
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