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Hindsight Bias and Strategic Choice: Some Problems in Learning From Experience

Ed Bukszar, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1988 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 3, pp 628-641
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In this article, the authors show that knowing eventual outcomes often distorts later reevaluations of initial decisions, and that training in strategic decision making can overcome such bias, in two experiments.
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Knowing eventual outcomes often distorts later reevaluations of initial decisions. Does training in strategic decision making overcome such bias? In two experiments, advanced strategy students anal...

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Decision Making in Action: Models and Methods

Gary Klein
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and elaborate on past models developed to explain this type of decision making and present a new perspective of naturalistic decision making, which they argue is unproductive since it is so heavily grounded in economics and mathematics.
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Cognitive biases and strategic decision processes: an integrative perspective*

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Talent management decision making

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review debates around talent management decision making and identify some future research areas that will inform future decision making in talent management, and present a state-of-the-art review of decision marking.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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Nonparametrics: Statistical Methods Based on Ranks

TL;DR: Rank Tests for Comparing Two Treatments and Blocked Comparisons for two Treatments in a Population Model and the One-Sample Problem as discussed by the authors were used to compare more than two treatments.
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Strategies for Change: Logical Incrementalism

TL;DR: This article reviewed the book "Strategies for Change: Logical Incrementalism" by James Brian Quinn and found that it is a good book to read for any learner.
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

TL;DR: A penetrating study of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis examines the workings of American decision-making and foreign policy as mentioned in this paper, and examines the inner workings of the United States' decisionmaking and its foreign policy.
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I knew it would happen: Remembered probabilities of once—future things

TL;DR: This paper found that participants tended to remember, or reconstruct in the event that they had forgotten, their own predictions some time after the visits were completed and indicated whether or not they thought that each event had in fact occurred.
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