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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Model Thinking by University of Michigan

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About the Course

We live in a complex world with diverse people, firms, and governments whose behaviors aggregate to produce novel, unexpected phenomena.
We see political uprisings, market crashes, and a never ending array of social trends. How do we make sense of it? Models. Evidence shows that
people who think with models consistently outperform those who don't. And, moreover people who think with lots of models outperform people
who use only one. Why do models make us better thinkers? Models help us to better organize information - to make sense of that fire hose or
hairball of data (choose your metaphor) available on the Internet. Models improve our abilities to make accurate forecasts. T...
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Top reviews

GK

Feb 24, 2017

Great content and lectures, that possibly provides new dimensions to look/explain the situation in context, I guess I will comeback for references to continue with this journey in to 'Model Thinking'

AA

Nov 23, 2020

very informative and insightful on how to use the various models at our disposal to take optimal decision. Also, was nostalgic to go back in time where these models were part of my university degree.

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By Ryan K

Feb 14, 2017

Cons:

-Too dated - links to many of the materials are unavailable.

-Instructors knowledge of some the models he cover is questionable (regression)

Pros:

-Covers a lot of materials

By Yuqin L

Feb 14, 2021

If your first language is not English, you will find it very hard to follow the video as the author talks too fast to understand.

By Stan M

Feb 15, 2021

dropped

By Maryam s s O A

Oct 2, 2020

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