Moneyball
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CORE DEFINITION
Originating from baseball, it refers to a strategy of finding high-cost-performance talent by mining undervalued objective data (such as on-base percentage) rather than relying on experts' subjective intuition (such as a player's good looks or smooth moves).
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
Counterintuitive arbitrage. In any market full of bias (including stock markets and hiring), as long as you trust data over intuition and find the "key metric ignored by the market," you can beat the giants at low cost.
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The Moneyball theory originates from the Oakland Athletics: using statistical measures (such as on-base percentage) to replace subjective scouting intuition, uncovering undervalued players, and building competitiveness at low cost. It demonstrates "using data to counter traditional cognitive biases."
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