Sentiment is Slow to Change: a Basketball Lesson, Part One
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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
At “A Dash” we realize how difficult it can be to understand investment principles. It is important to have good examples. It is even more powerful to step outside the normal investment world, where the reader already has a strong opinion.
In our classroom days we would frequently set up a different and unfamiliar problem. Students would examine and discuss the case with enthusiasm. Then we would reveal the analogy that was the point of the lesson. Some in the class would object, of course, but that was fine. Discussing whether or not an analogy is apt is part of the process of education.
