09 — Emotional Drivers

Overconfidence#

◐ Behavioral
◆ The PatternBelieving you know more than you do.

Overconfidence — systematically overestimating one's ability to predict, analyze, and control outcomes.

Three types:
1. Overestimation: "I'll beat the market" (93% think they're above-average drivers)
2. Overprecision: Confidence intervals too narrow ("I'm 95% sure it'll hit $50" — it won't)
3. Overplacement: "I'm a better trader than most people"

Barber & Odean (2000): the most frequent traders earned 7.1% less annually than the least frequent. Overconfidence → overtrading → underperformance.

Pattern bridge: Too-narrow confidence intervals from too much certainty. In statistics, this is literally miscalibrated confidence intervals. In ML, low bias, high variance — the overfit model that’s sure it’s right.
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