Actuarial Notes

Decision-Making

Study guides: Exam CFE-101, Exam CP-311, Exam DMAC

"Decision-making is the act of choosing between two or more courses of action."

There are many academic fields of study that investigate decision-making, such as operations research, behavioral science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, economics, and psychology.

Central Problems in Decision-Making

  1. Uncertainty: How we measure uncertainty in our decisions?
  2. Constraints: How do we make the best possible decisions under internal and external constraints?
  3. Trade-offs: How do we measure trade-offs of decisions, relative to our goals?
  4. Learning: How do we learn to make better decisions?
  5. Collaboration: How do we make decisions with others when we don't always agree?

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