Friday, February 23, 2024

Basketball: Rethinking Makes Sense Unless You've Never Been Wrong Plus the Wisdom of Coach K

We play our 'scenes' with a certain status. In the Navy, the answer to any question flowed from "what is in the best interest of the Navy?" Whether the lowest seaman or senior officer, the rules applied. 

Work with the knowledge and first-hand information of the insider or the data, bias, and perspective of the outsider. Those viewpoints and data sets can converge or stand far apart. 

Bias is part of our limitations. Bias is intrinsic to us but the discipline to believe facts can overcome. 

Review a few major cognitive biases..."Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment."

Anchoring : pre-existing beliefs influence our perception of events ("he's a good person so he couldn't have done that") 

Confirmation bias: reading or watching material that supports our belief. 

Endowment effect: holding our people and possessions in higher value because they are ours (players we coach, our children, our antique clock)

"Illusion of validity, the tendency to overestimate the accuracy of one's judgments, especially when available information is consistent or inter-correlated." - Wikipedia

Sample size: we draw broader conclusions irrespective of the limitations of the data sample 

Rethinking isn't the only way to think better. Consider that we might be wrong and reasons why. 

Lagniappe. 

Lagniappe 2. Plyo beginner work. 

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