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

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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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