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the only point of taking an MBA is to unlearn the natural tendency to perceive magnitde as a log fn of magnitude Interesting. Anything to read about it?
by cema 10y ago
the only point of taking an MBA is to unlearn the natural tendency to perceive magnitde as a log fn of magnitude
Interesting. Anything to read about it?
- Flow 10y agoMaybe not exactly what you are looking for, but there's this classic series of videos from a math professor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOykY2SMbZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOykY2SMbZ0 He claims, and probably rightly so, that people don't think in exponentials and therefore makes awfully wrong statements and predictions.
- zekevermillion 10y agoThis is the best I could find on the web. Unfortunately Galanter published in an era when everything was paywalled. I've had a lot of trouble finding blog-worthy writing of his, although his lecture is one of the few that I remember from undergrad years... http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-010-2245-3_6 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-010-2245-3...