When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2014
Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. 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. Ergo: heuristics win.
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