Read The Numbers Honestly — Uncertainty, Base Rates, And Noise

The soundness of a decision process — accurately representing knowledge, weighing alternatives and probabilities — judged independently of the realized outcome. (Building robustness into a worldview.)

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Ordered tasks (34) — this is what a project auto-creates

#1Data Quality & Critical InquiryHighTo Do
Teaches you to interrogate where a number came from before you trust it, and to estimate how much of a dataset is genuine signal versus noise.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 0 days after project start · takes 14 days
#2Cognitive Biases & HeuristicsHighTo Do
Catalogs the predictable ways your judgment deviates from the numbers — availability, anchoring, confirmation, representativeness, motivated reasoning — and how to counter them.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 14 days after project start · takes 14 days
#3Dual-Process Cognition (System 1 / System 2)MediumTo Do
The interplay of fast intuitive judgment and slow deliberate reasoning, and when to trust each with numbers.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 28 days after project start · takes 7 days
#4Narrative Fallacy & Illusory CausalityMediumTo Do
Warns you about the mind's compulsion to build tidy causal stories over messy or random facts, manufacturing an illusion of understanding.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 35 days after project start · takes 7 days
#5Distorted Risk Perception & MiscalibrationHighTo Do
Maps the systematic gap between how dangerous something feels and how dangerous it statistically is. You learn where your gut reliably over- and under-shoots.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 42 days after project start · takes 14 days
#6Fear Promotion & Risk Information FramingMediumTo Do
Exposes how hazards are packaged to maximize emotional impact and trigger fast, heuristic judgment. You learn to detect the framing before it moves you.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 56 days after project start · takes 7 days
#7Emotional Regulation & DistanceMediumTo Do
Address the transient emotions — tilt, fear, urgency — that hijack decisions, and the distancing techniques that restore alignment with your long-term interests. You learn to buy time between feeling and acting.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 63 days after project start · takes 7 days
#8Statistical Literacy & ThinkingHighTo Do
Define the central capacity the whole guide serves: building an accurate mental model of a probabilistic situation and reasoning correctly within it. You get the distinction between memorized formulas and genuine statistical insight.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 70 days after project start · takes 14 days
#9Sample Size & Statistical PowerHighTo Do
How the count of independent observations sets the width of your uncertainty and your ability to detect real effects — before and after you run anything.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 84 days after project start · takes 14 days
#10Effect Size vs. Statistical SignificanceHighTo Do
Reorients you from asking whether an effect exists to asking whether it is large enough to matter for a decision.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 98 days after project start · takes 14 days
#11Base Rates & the Outside ViewMediumTo Do
Anchor a forecast on how similar cases have actually turned out before adjusting for the specifics of yours.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 112 days after project start · takes 7 days
#12Overconfidence & Epistemic ArroganceHighTo Do
Targets the gap between how sure you feel about a number or forecast and how accurate it actually is. You learn to measure that gap and shrink it through calibration rather than willpower.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 119 days after project start · takes 14 days
#13Epistemic Humility & Skeptical MindsetHighTo Do
Builds the habit of holding beliefs provisionally — questioning sources, claims, and your own reactions — so you can revise when evidence warrants.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 133 days after project start · takes 14 days
#14Survivorship Bias & Silent EvidenceMediumTo Do
Makes visible the missing data — the failures, dropouts, and casualties you never see — that quietly inflate every success story you do.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 147 days after project start · takes 7 days
#15Misinformation, Bullshit & Deception DetectionHighTo Do
Focus on a working toolkit for spotting misleading quantitative claims — cherry-picked stats, false precision, and unfalsifiable numbers. You learn to refute them without a statistics degree.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 154 days after project start · takes 14 days
#16Sound Research & Study DesignHighTo Do
Lock down the inferential quality of a study before a single data point is collected — where hypotheses, sampling, measurement, and power get decided.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 168 days after project start · takes 14 days
#17Validity & Reliability of InferenceHighTo Do
Define what makes a conclusion trustworthy — robustness, replicability, generalizability, and freedom from both false alarms and misses — and how the upstream design choices converge on it.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 182 days after project start · takes 14 days
#18Uncertainty Quantification & Probabilistic RepresentationHighTo Do
Teaches you to carry uncertainty forward as a range or distribution instead of collapsing it into a single deceptively confident number.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 196 days after project start · takes 14 days
#19System Noise (Random Judgment Variability)HighTo Do
Separates random scatter in repeated judgments from consistent directional bias, and shows why noise is the error you cannot see by looking at averages. You get the diagnostic lens to detect variability that should not exist.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 210 days after project start · takes 14 days
#20Luck vs. Skill & Randomness DomainHighTo Do
Gauge how much of an outcome is chance versus skill, and whether you're in a mild (Mediocristan) or wild (Extremistan) randomness regime.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 224 days after project start · takes 14 days
#21Model Limitations & OverfittingMediumTo Do
Keeps you honest about what your models leave out — the difference between the map ('Model Land') and the territory. You learn to use outputs without mistaking them for reality.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 238 days after project start · takes 7 days
#22Probabilistic / Betting Decision FramingHighTo Do
Reframes decisions as bets on uncertain futures and teaches you to state beliefs as probabilities and scenario ranges instead of yes/no certainties. You get a language for thinking under uncertainty.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 245 days after project start · takes 14 days
#23Outcome vs. Process (Resulting) & FieldingMediumTo Do
Separates the quality of a decision from the quality of its outcome, so a bad break doesn't get blamed on good judgment. You learn to field results by attributing them to skill versus luck.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 259 days after project start · takes 7 days
#24Structured Decision Process & Debiasing LeversHighTo Do
Use the levers that architect judgment: decomposition, checklists, relative scales, information sequencing, and reality-testing. You learn to build error out of the process rather than out of yourself.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 266 days after project start · takes 14 days
#25Aggregation & Truth-Seeking GroupsMediumTo Do
Shows how combining independent judgments and building dissent-friendly groups cancels individual error. You learn what makes a crowd wise rather than a herd.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 280 days after project start · takes 7 days
#26Escalation of Commitment & Sunk CostMediumTo Do
Names why you throw good resources after bad — sunk cost, loss aversion, endowment, status-quo bias — and how to quit a failing course on time. You learn to treat quitting as a decision, not a defeat.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 287 days after project start · takes 7 days
#27Black Swans, Fragility & RobustnessHighTo Do
Stop forecasting rare catastrophes and instead engineer your exposures so shocks help rather than harm you. You get the barbell and antifragility as concrete design tools.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 294 days after project start · takes 14 days
#28Objective Ignorance & Irreducible UncertaintyMediumTo Do
Apply a working sense of the hard floor on prediction — the portion of the future no method, model, or expert can recover — and how to tell it apart from your own sloppiness.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 308 days after project start · takes 7 days
#29Experience-Based Intuition & SensemakingMediumTo Do
Legitimizes expert intuition — recognitional pattern-matching and mental simulation — as a real decision engine under time pressure. You learn when to trust the gut and when it's an imposter.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 315 days after project start · takes 7 days
#30Decision QualityHighTo Do
Define a decision's quality by its process and evidentiary grounding at the moment it was made — not by how it turned out — and gives you a way to evaluate choices under uncertainty fairly.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 322 days after project start · takes 14 days
#31Accurate Worldview & Belief AccuracyHighTo Do
Build a picture of the world that tracks what the data actually says, not what the vivid story implies. You learn to weight thousands of quiet cases over one loud one.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 336 days after project start · takes 14 days
#32Well-Being & Psychological ResilienceMediumTo Do
Connect sound probabilistic thinking to how you feel after a decision goes wrong. It gives you a way to evaluate choices by their process rather than punishing yourself for unlucky outcomes.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 350 days after project start · takes 7 days
#33Societal Resource (Mis)allocation & TrustMediumTo Do
Examine what happens when miscalibrated risk perception scales up to public budgets, media attention, and institutional trust. You see how statistical errors become societal misallocations.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 357 days after project start · takes 7 days
#34Organizational Context, Culture & Catastrophic FailureMediumTo Do
Address how the organization around a decision-maker shapes — and often degrades — judgment quality. You learn to spot the structural conditions that turn individual errors into catastrophic failures.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 364 days after project start · takes 7 days