The Data-Driven Way to Make Decisions (Parenting, Health, Career): Emily Oster
September 29, 202600:41:41

The Data-Driven Way to Make Decisions (Parenting, Health, Career): Emily Oster

Emily Oster is a Harvard trained economist who built a career on making decisions when the data is bad or missing. I asked her how she does it.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Let the decision lead the data
04:03 – Instagram isn't evidence
08:39 – What to do when there's no data
10:57 – Your family is a small business
14:33 – Right decision vs right process
30:21 – The New York test score error
39:00 – Rapid fire myths

🔗 CONNECT WITH EMILY
📚 Expecting Better: https://a.co/d/00ExVFqN
📚 Cribsheet: https://a.co/d/09rGjGjs
📚 The Family Firm: https://a.co/d/08RaAOBh
📈 Emily's artifact: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/ecaef324-0efe-401a-9fca-d5d2816e88ee
📊 Education Substack: https://substack.com/@statetestscoreresults
🤝 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyoster/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profemilyoster/
🐦 X: https://x.com/ProfEmilyOster/
💻 Website: https://parentdata.org/

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