Cassie Kozyrkov

Let me tell you what they said to me.

They said to me, and look, I love the University of Chicago, my heart, but my college, what are they called?

Advisors, right?

The ones that check through your course list and make sure everything's working as intended.

Said to me, what is this?

What job do you think you're trying to get with all this chaos?

You're not going to get any kind of job.

You're not studying anything coherent.

Why is there this bit from psychology and this bit from neuroscience and biology and this bit from economics and here is statistics and here is game theory?

what is this mishmash?

Well, the answer is that what this mishmash was all about was decision-making.

And there was no discipline that would actually teach you all this.

She's saying it!

She's saying it!

So I had to go and get full immersion in the decision disciplines.

Yes.

Separately, separately, so I had to suffer, I had to suffer.

I had to get full degrees in economics, full degrees, multiple of them, in applied statistics, mathematical statistics.

with AI and machine learning because that is the automation of decision making.

I had to study statistics because what is that?