optimism bias

3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2018 by Tali Sharot · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55) Jun 4, 2018 · 1 mention · from 4:40
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Sharot: Decision-Makers Should Correct for Outcomes Rather Than Attempting Debiasing

“It's very difficult to correct people's predictions and to correct the bias in how they process information, but you can change the outcome.”

Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 15:12 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)

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Sharot: 80% of people show personal optimism but societal pessimism

“And actually we call that private optimism and public despair. So this interesting conflict where on one side people are quite optimistic about themselves. We see this in 80% of the population. But at the same time, we are pessimistic about the rest of the wor…”

Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 11:14 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)

Jun 4, 2018

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Sharot: Optimism bias persists because humans update more on positive information

“What my research has shown is that we maintain this optimism bias and we, it's generated because we learn a little bit better from unexpected positive information than unexpected negative information.”

Tali Sharot Jun 4, 2018 ▶ 10:10 Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)

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