The optimizer's curse

Smith, J. E., & Winkler, R. L. (2006). The optimizer's curse: Skepticism and postdecision surprise in decision analysis. Management Science, 52(3), 311-322.

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• Winner's Curse
  • Recognizing these as instances of one structure lets an insight earned in auction theory be redeployed in statistics, sports analytics, or research methodology.

    This sourceDecision-analytic generalization showing the same selection-on-the-maximum logic produces postdecision disappointment whenever the highest-scored option is chosen from noisy estimates, unifying the winner's curse with regression to the mean and publication bias and prescribing Bayesian shrinkage as the remedy.

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