Great Class!

Very Useful

Very short

Good one.

Amazing!

thank you

Very good

good!

Good

Good

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I completed the course with great interest, mainly because I have a strong affinity for finance and behavioral topics. I enrolled to deepen my understanding of how cognitive biases influence real-world financial decisions, something I consider extremely relevant both for investors and for anyone dealing with decisions under uncertainty. Overall, the content is very good. The material is clear, well-structured, and includes useful examples that help connect theory with practice. It definitely broadened my perspective on how decisions that seem rational are, in reality, strongly influenced by behavioral factors. The main weakness, in my view, is the evaluation model. In many cases, it seems focused on checking whether the student memorized the name of a bias rather than truly understanding the concept. This ends up encouraging superficial memorization instead of developing critical thinking and practical application. I believe assessments based on real-world scenarios or decision-making exercises would be much more effective in consolidating learning. That said, the course was very worthwhile and added value to my understanding. I especially appreciated how the concepts are presented and the practical relevance of the subject.

Intéressant pour un passionné des sciences comportementales, de revoir ou de découvrir certaines notions. Les capsules vidéos sont plutôt utiles mais auraient mérité d'être plus "vivantes" et plus complètes (cf. les lectures associées... de diapo). Dans ce prolongement, certains biais sont peu ou prou détaillés et laissent à penser que certaines notions se "chevauchent"... ou dans tous les cas, elles mériteraient un éclairage distinctif plus soutenu. Certaines réponses au quizz m'ont d'ailleurs laissé et me laisse encore perplexe...La difficulté qui peut se rajouter est la limite de la traduction automatique obligeant des AR dans les deux langues et donc la perte de sens quand ce n'est pas exprimé dans votre langue maternelle. Quoi qu'il en soit, merci pour ce contenu et cet accès "worldwide". Duke quand même! :-)

I very much enjoyed the information contained in the course - however I did find that it was difficult to apply some of the very nuanced biases to the financial problems posed in the quiz when many of the biases were used in examples outside of the stock market in the course readings leading up to the quiz. I really wish there were more examples for each bias (and more from the world of finance) because some biases were really hard to distinguish from one another. On one hand I did like that I wasn't spoon fed the information for the quizes but on the other I don't feel as though I was fully equipped to answer some of the quiz questions due to the way the information had been presented.

The information built on itself so I found myself going back to week 1 information and week 2 information in week three.

The course gives you a nice introduction into the world of behavioural finance but fails to take it any further. There isn't a lot of in-depth theory about the various biases that have been mentioned which sometimes makes it difficult to completely grasp them. Also, the first-week quiz had answer explanations with it, which is IMO very useful; the second and third-week quizzes fail to provide any such help. Because of this and lack of participation in the discussion forums, it becomes very difficult to understand some questions. Overall, I had some fun while doing this course, behavioural finance is a field in which I wanted to dive in for a long time, and this course actually gave me a good start. So for everyone who's looking to learn something about it, I would suggest you give it a chance.

The concepts presented in the course were all exciting, interesting and helpful. The faculty seemed knowledgable on the subject. And this inspired confidence in me as I began. However, I found that the video material was underwhelming in that it did not do justice to the depth of the reading material provided. The reading material left me with questions, which I hoped would be clarified in the videos, but that did not happen. I often saw myself referring to YouTube to seek explanations. I often struggled to find reliable definitions of the terminology used in the course. And that did not help when I was doing the quiz. Many concepts from the quiz were simply left out from the course (e.g. Stages in a bubble). I had to do exhaustive googling in order to answer the questions in the quiz.

A comprehensive list of biases in the content was selected. The professors are very good at explaining the content in the video lessons. However, there were just too few of them and too much to read on our own. Also the written material explain biases and effects in a bit of a complicated manner. At the end of the reading, usually I didn't know what was theory, what was a bias and what was an"effect" or a fallacy. When a bias relates to another bias, sometimes a famous one not originated in the behavioral finance theory, then it get even more confusing. Even with those issues, I liked the course and would love to have personal classes with the professors some day. Duke university seems to be really top notch.

I think that the material was fairly straightforward, but the process of teaching it felt like it can be improved. There are many nuances in the definitions, and i don't think there was enough time spent discussing these nuances. Subsequent quizzes throw questions at you in hopes that you remember these nuances, but don't do much to help you understand what you've gotten wrong. The same can be said across some of the material where the notes themselves have random questions, but if you don't understand or know the answer, there's no easy way to find out what you misunderstood.

Some great content covered here and I enjoyed the exercises throughout that invited me to use own behaviour as a learning tool.

That said, there are a lot of concepts introduced here in quick succession without clarity. It would be good to present them more clearly in groupings or an overview that could be reinforced throughout. The quiz sections we're also very difficult to follow, and I still don't understand why some answers were incorrect. It was especially difficult to do the last quiz as the web pages included in the reading material no longer work.

On the one hand, such a course is highly demanded and needed, for obvious reasons. However, this particular course is a subject of further and considerable development, in my opinion, of course. 1. I was confused by all this new terminology. While I well informed about many things discussed and clearly understood the explanations, the terms themselves caused a lot of problems. 2. the manner of speech of the second teacher is not student-friendly. So, as a first step ok, but I rather avoid DUKE courses in future,,,

I truly appreciate how well this course explained the psychology of an average investor with clear, real-life examples. The way concepts were broken down made them both relatable and insightful. However, I believe the learning experience could be enhanced further if the professors also explained the PDF reading materials. Having those sections discussed in the same engaging manner would make the sessions even more interactive and leave learners feeling more informed and connected with the material upon completion.

I liked the material given throughout the course. Interesting examples were chosen to help us understand the cognitive biases that include decision making, and the lecture slides were very helpful.

My one gripe is that the quizzes did not give enough feedback. The last quiz seemed to have some material that was not covered in the course, and there was little to no feedback for the answers.

Overall, I would recommend this course to a friend on the condition that more feedback be given for the quizzes.

I believed that the original length of this course is more than 3 weeks (the instructor even mentioned that the course is 14 weeks!?). The reason I point this out is because some of the questions in the quizzes does not cover in the lectures videos of the course. Hence, from my point of view, the quizzes is quite difficult even if you have completed all the lecture videos. Moreover, it would be great if the course have more than one instructor, otherwise it feel like a monologue.