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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business

As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. “In general, if you are in an uncertain world, make it simple,” Gigerenzer said when I interviewed him earlier this year.

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