When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 2, 2014
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. What they found surprised them. Ergo: heuristics win. There are other areas where the heuristic advantage might be even greater.
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