 Judgement or models: The importance of task differencesM. Lawrence and M. O'Connor Omega, 1996, vol. 24, issue 3, 245-254 Abstract: Over twenty years research on cognitive biases and limitations has built a strong case for managers not to use their judgement if a suitable formula or model is available. Much of this work was built on research demonstrating that in an environment where the judgemental cues are well established, pre-specified and not auto-correlated and where there is little contextual information, that a model based on expert judgement (a model-of-man) is more accurate than the expert himself. However, much practical decision making takes place in a setting where cues are not well established, where auto-correlation is present, and where there is general contextual information. This study investigated decisions made in such a setting, namely time series forecasting. Forecasts were estimated judgementally for 111 real life time series. These estimates were then used to construct a model-of-man and the forecasts from this model compared in accuracy with the original judgemental forecasts. This study found the model-of-man not to be superior to man when assessed in terms of forecast accuracy thus demonstrating a commonly occurring task setting in which the dominant research result in not true. Keywords: forecasting; judgement; modelling; accuracy; empirical (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jomega:v:24:y:1996:i:3:p:245-254 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Omega is currently edited by B. Lev More articles in Omega from Elsevier |
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