Duke: Framing decisions as bets transforms dissenting information into helpful calibration
Annie Duke · Annie Duke - Improving Decision Making [Capital Allocators, EP.39] · Feb 5, 2018 · at 32:41
Decision strategist Annie Duke explains to Ted Seides how treating beliefs as explicit bets shifts psychological incentives toward accuracy over defensive ego-preservation.
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“What a bet does is it shifts your idea of what winning means. So winning is now actually having the most accurate representation in the world. And that really comes through the accountability that this idea of betting is, because when you challenged your daughter to a bet, you were holding her accountable to her beliefs in a way that normally we don't do. What that does is it makes it so that instead of viewing information that disagrees with us as an attack on our identity, it now Changes that to helpful, because now if you have information that might calibrate my belief well, that's going to cause me to be a better, better, and I've now changed the rules of what the game is”
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