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Linear Models of Judgment

Linear Models of Judgment. Judgment vs. choice Multiattribute model of judgment Actuarial model of the environment Experts and computers Bootstrapping models. Judgment vs. Choice. Judgment = assign a score or category e.g., How much would you pay for a one-week trip to Aspen?

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Linear Models of Judgment

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  1. Linear Models of Judgment • Judgment vs. choice • Multiattribute model of judgment • Actuarial model of the environment • Experts and computers • Bootstrapping models

  2. Judgment vs. Choice • Judgment = assign a score or category e.g., How much would you pay for a one-week trip to Aspen? How much do you like Bill Clinton? What will the price of Intel be in 6 months? • Choice = pick from a set of alternatives e.g., which car? investment? job?

  3. Multiattribute Choice Model • Choice = select most desirable • Desirability is judged from attributes • Attributes can be FACTS (e.g., price), COMPOSITES (e.g., safety), or subjective VALUES (e.g., prestige) • There is often a hierarchical structure to attributes and judgments • How to make tradeoffs, e.g., weight & add

  4. Desirability of a Car

  5. Lens Model • Judgment (Ys) is an attempt to represent or predict the environment from cues • There is a criterion (Ye) that allows us to estimate correctness of the judgment c u Ys Ye e s

  6. Models of Decision Makers • Slovic’s study of two stockbrokers: A: near term prospects, P/E, earnings qtly trend B: earnings yearly trend, P/E, profit margin trend • Ratings of business schools: USNWR: reputation with academics, reputation with CEOs, selectivity, placement BusWeek: recruiters rate analytics, teaming, global; graduates rate teaching, curriculum, placement

  7. Occupation clergy 46 executive 62 professional 62 student 46 teacher 46 unemployed 33 no answer 47 Job Tenure < .5 years 31 .5 - 5.5 24 5.5 - 8.5 26 8.5 - 15.5 31 > 15.5 years 39 Capon, J. Marketing, 1982, 46, 82-91. Actuarial Environmental Models Major Retailer’s Credit Scoring Table • Older economists make more extreme forecasts

  8. Comparisons Using Models • How consistent are individuals? • How consensual are experts? • How accurate are judges? (Ye vs. Ys) • What are judges doing? (Ysm) • What predicts the criterion? (Yem) • How good are our models? • Do judges understand the environment? (Yem vs. Ysm)

  9. Graduate Admissions Example • Ys = judgment of admissions committee (1 to 5 scale) • Ye = faculty ratings of performance • Ysm = prediction model of judgments = -4.17 +.0032*GRE+1.02*GPA+.0791*QI • Yem= actuarial model of performance = -.71 +.0006*GRE+.76*GPA+.2518*QI

  10. Admission and Job Interviews • Harvard Business School stopped conducting interviews • Are interviews accurate? • Are interviews overweighted? • What is their proper role? • HBS no longer uses the GMAT • HBS criteria: academics and character

  11. Advantages of Models • Makes strategy explicit • Can see how experts vary • Train new judges • Learn about environments • Enhance or replace experts • Can use the model when expert gone

  12. Judges vs. Environment • Which should be more accurate, expert judges or actuarial models? • Judges have their experience, ability to use cues in complex ways • Actuarial models are simple, typically linear in form, consistent

  13. Judges vs. Actuarial Model

  14. Why Don’t Experts Do Better? • They have the wrong rules • They don’t use their rules - distractions - fatigue, boredom - “exceptions” - unable to make tradeoffs

  15. Bootstrapping Models • If intuitive decision makers have good rules but fail to use them consistently, can we separate signal from noise? • Consensus of judges (see groups later) • Model of a judge (bootstrapping) Judgment = Linear + Nonlinear + Noise • What wins: Judge vs. linear model?

  16. A Tale of Three Models

  17. Some Typical Results • Some tasks are much harder than others • Actuarial models almost always win • Bootstrapping works! • Linear models correlate with any monotonic function, work well when there is noise, positively correlated cues, work with random or unit weights • To improve on linear models, you need lots of data

  18. Experts and Models • What do experts do best? • What do computers do best? • How can they be combined? • Should we give the model to the expert or give the expert to the model?

  19. Batterymarch Example • Stock portfolio company • Manage $12 Billion with 37 employees • Experts identify variables, suggest rules, design tests, deal with clients • Computer keeps databases, runs tests of rules, buys and sells stocks • 10-12 rules identify attractive stocks

  20. Working With the Political Lens: Separating Facts and Values • Selecting a bullet for Denver Police - police want to immobilize suspects - community concerned about injuries - experts testify on each side • What kinds of information are needed? • How should this decision be made?

  21. A Frame for Conflict Resolution FactsValues Desirability weight Injury potential speed shape Stopping power etc. Threat to bystanders

  22. Injury Potential proposed by Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . proposed by Community Denver Bullet Resolution • Experts combine facts into judgments on each value • Constituencies compromise on how to weight the values into overall worth Stopping Power

  23. Role of Technical Experts • Executive whose daughter had a hip deformity • One doctor said, “Wait” • A second said, “Brace for 6 months” • The third said, “Operate” • How would you make this decision?

  24. Your Exercise #1: Job Selection • What were the attributes or objectives of jobs that mattered to you? • How different were the rankings due to intuition, weighted linear model, unit weighted model? • If the rankings differ, which do you trust? Why? • Value-added in the process, not the numbers

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