What Is a Mental Model and How to Build a Better Toolkit
Mental models are thinking frameworks that help you reason clearly and make better decisions.
What was corrected
The article attributed the forecasting study to Superforecasting 2015, gave a 30% premortem figure, said genuine experts underestimate competence per Dunning-Kruger, said superforecasters update three times as often, gave a 5-10x SpaceX cost figure, said Forrester documented dozens of opposite-effect cases, and presented Nordgren and Eisenhardt as proving diverse-model and latticework claims.
Re-attributed and qualified each to the primary record: Expert Political Judgment 2005 for the forecasting numbers, illustrative framing for the premortem figure, the debated status of the Dunning-Kruger below-average effect, Musk's own account for the SpaceX figure, and softened causal language for Forrester, Nordgren, and Eisenhardt.
Why this is better
The sources are genuine but were mis-attributed or overstated. Corrections fix the citation and scope the claims to what the studies support rather than adding new sources.
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