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Guidance Community Discussion Space :: helping build careers Weblog 122 entries 08-July-2008 36 authors
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What is the value of the long bets foundation for practictioner understanding? What can probability theory bring to guidance?
How are prediction for the future actually made? Can some sort of simple odds calculation be used with clients? Eg, the chances of getting this job are 10/1 if you meet the person specifications. Then we could look at how we could improve the odds by various interventions, eg have the something an employer especially wants or analysing case studies.

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