Book Draft – “Making Good Decisions” – Workbook for Volume 1 – Part V: Terms-of-Art Definitions: Page 11 of 12
This post for all readers continues the public peer-review of this book with page 11 of the Terms-of-Art definitions for this workbook (Vol.1 – Part V: The Template for Reading Research Papers).
A reader involved in the public peer-review of this book on Substack asked for a one-page document that would present the top-10 or so, bottom-line ideas from this book:
- The Epilogue for all five Part of Volume 1 summarizes 15 key ideas in full sentences and paragraphs.
- These Terms-of-Art definitions for Vol. 1- Part V: The Template for Reading Research Papers provide an opportunity to summarize key ideas from this workbook with single, related words.
- The list of Terms, shown in alphabetical order for each key idea, will grow with each one of these twelve post as new definitions become visible.
This creates a list of the top-10, bottom-line ideas from this book. Here is the updated list that includes Terms-of-Arts from Pages 1 to 11:
1- Start with a Model of Self:
o Amplification, Brains, Decision-Maker, Emulator, Motion, Perceptions, Predictions, Sea Squirt, …
2- Understand the Foundations:
a. Assumptions & Hypotheses, Concealed Evidence, Feet of Clay, (the) Forgotten Absent, Inputs from Primary Energy Reservoirs, Output to Residual Energy Converters, Primary Energy Converters (Productive Hosts), Simulated Illustions, …
3- See the Incentives:
a. (the) Bandits, Business Ecosystem Template, Dominance Hierarchies, Flow, Foil in the Flow, (the) Helpless, (the) Intelligent, Johari Window Model, Known-Knowns, Known-Unknowns, Luck-compounding Machines, Potemkin Villages, Purpose, (the) Stupid, …
4- Take the View of the Individual Experience:
a. Ambiguity, Clinician [and Individual Clinical Ambiguity], Doubt, Ecological Rationality, Embodied Psychology, Exposures, Large World, …
5- Develop Tools, Checklists, and Processes:
a. “Checklist” (for Pattern-Matching), Descriptive Research, OODA-Loop, Path Dependency, Practice (for perfection in the presence of cause & effect), Practices, Predictive Research, Prescriptive Research, “Process” that Improve the Odds, Randomized Control Trials, Skill-Luck Continuum, …
6- Identify Biases from Willful Ignorance, Error & Deceit, and Make Corrections:
a. Bias, Error & Deceit, Evidence-based, Extensions of Man, False Reconstruction, Figure, Good Stories, Ground, Invisible Gorillas, Media (Hot/Cold), Misdirection, Music Rooms (& Pianos), Naivete, Named Item, Number Magic, Perspective, Precision, Probabilities, Randomness, Real Stories, Spinach & Iron, …
7- Recognize the Applicability of General Solutions:
a. Deductive Inference, Ergodicity Economics, “Fast & Frugal” Heuristics Program, Growth Dynamics, Heuristics, Heuristics & Bias Program, Inductive Inference, Logic & Statistics Program, Repair Programs, …
8- Document Domain-specific Alternatives:
a. Client-centric Planning, Expected Value Optimization, Growth Optimal Solutions/Selections, (Historical) Lineage …
9- Validate the Power and Limits of Quantification:
a. Accuracy, AI/ML, Association, Big Data & types of Data, Certainty, Chances, Classification, Coherence, Conditional Probabilities, Confidence Interval, Confounding Variable, Counterfactuals, Difference, DAGs, Dispersion, Distribution, Effect, Estimate, Event, Expected Value, Interpretation, Quality, Random Variable, Rational, Regression, Relevance, Reliability, Sample, Sensitivity, Specificity, Statistical Doubt, Statistical Significance, …
10- Decide when to “Trust Them”, “Show Me”, or “See for Yourself”:
a. Antifragile, Constructive Skepticism, Habitable Order, Meaning, Practical Significance, …
As readers saw in the earlier post, the Glossary list include both names of authors (in bold) as well as Terms-of-Art (in italics).
- Earlier posts presented the Author Profiles.
- This series of posts presents the definitions for the Terms-of-Art, at the rate of one page per post (with about 12+/- definitions per page).
This book, a collection of eleven workbooks in three volumes, gives readers “Tools”, “Checklists” & “Processes” to “See for Yourself” the (i) perspective, (ii) scientific domains, (iii) historical context, (iv) purpose, (v) methodology, (vi) methods, (vii) assumptions, & (viii) meaning of the research papers, books, & stories that compete for their attention.
The workbook for Volume 1 - Part V starts the printed publication schedule to give readers the summary & bottom-line of this book [The Template for Reading Research Papers] as a deliverable they can use immediately.
”CTRI by Francois Gadenne” writes a business book in three volumes, published serially on Substack for public peer-review. The book connects the dots of life-enhancing practices for the next generation, free of controlling algorithms, based on the lifetime experience of a retirement age entrepreneur, & continuously updated with insights from reading Wealth, Health, & Statistics research papers on behalf of large companies as the co-founder of CTRI.