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Rated Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts 4/10

The talk about gambling is great but it is few and far between. I wish the author had focused on that.<br/><br/>The rest of the book is padded with your standard pop-sci drivel which is familiar, derivative and boring. The worst of it comes when she jumps into the Haidt trap of arguing for right-wing diversity to further better decision making. It's entirely unrelated to the book and marks the author as a tool.<br/><br/>Turning everything into a bet is a very limited view and even at that it isn't treated very deeply. Tell me how you write a book about bets without adding a lot of mathematics.<br/><br/>I'll grant that I as a life long stats junkie would not find anything interesting in this book but for people who don't have that as a background there may be a lot in there that's valuable.<br/><br/>The <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444653.How_to_Measure_Anything?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=2SDoGeKKW0&rank=1">"How to measure anything…"</a> series of books are a much better and more serious introduction into quantification, estimation and decision making.

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Published 2025-09-26 21:55 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere