2. Mental Models

Overview

  • cognitive bias resulting in predicting short timeframes for planned projects
  • describe plans that:
    • are not realistically close to ideal scenarios
    • could be improved by looking at statistical data
  • relates to the inside view
  • the error arises from not considering distributional informations
  • how to mitigate (reference class forecasting)
    • identify an appropriate reference class
    • get statistical data from the reference class and use them to generate a priori prediction
    • adjust the prediction by using specific information for the case
  • similar to