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The Definitive Guide to Marketing Analytics and Metrics (Collection)

by Cesar Brea, Rajkumar Venkatesan, Paul Farris, Ronald T. Wilcox, Neil Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, David Reibstein
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate
1009 pages
23h 39m
English
Pearson
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10. Managing Bias—Like Air, Invisible and Everywhere

Wikipedia’s “List of cognitive biases” page runs to nearly one hundred ways we either twist or ignore facts we are presented with—and these are just the ones related to decision-making, behavior, and beliefs.1 However, conventional economic thinking of the past several decades has depended on the assumption that people act rationally in making decisions, relying on fully engaged logical faculties. Many routine presentations of analytic findings seem to be built on this assumption as well.

1. “List of biases in judgment and decision making,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biases_in_judgment_and_decision_making.

The psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of the best-selling book Thinking, ...

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