Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making

Math, Productivity, Happiness and Decision-making

Feb 22, 2012, 05:10 PM - 06:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Nisan Stiennon, Stanford math (Speaker)
Most people are overconfident -- i.e., wrong much more often than they expect to be -- whereas others are underconfident. What can we do about that? Our goal is to train ourselves, through habit and exercises, to have a more accurate internal measure of confidence --- to be *well calibrated* --- so that on average we can can make more accurate decisions. How? What we're willing to count on, and...