Aug 16, 2017
Great course! It allows to understand the twisted logic that run in our heads. Helps to establish the balance between probabilistic truth and illusions that infect our decision-making. Thanks a lot!
May 03, 2018
This course was a very good sum up of Daniel Kahneman's thinking fast and slow. Definitely recommend to everyone who would like to know more about our flaws or would like to refresh your knowledge.
von Shaktiman S
•Aug 14, 2017
Video Lectures covered partial course content. PDFs provided also left out some details which formed a pat of Week 3 Quiz. Could have been made much more interactive and interesting by including real world interviews and the design of course content could also be made moe engaging.
von Aidan C
•Oct 05, 2016
The course information was fairly useful, but the execution not so much. The material spent more time on somewhat repetitive examples than it did on explaining the actual concepts those examples were illustrating, and the videos were primarily just lecturers reading parts of the slides that you had already read, but in their own words.
The tests, sadly, were poorly-designed for the subject matter of the course. Behavioral biases - like many psychological phenomena - overlap to some degree, and the frequently-used format of 'choose all that apply' - or worse 'choose all that might apply' - resulted in trying to guess what the test-setter was looking for rather than trying to apply the information that had been learned. When you find yourself trying to decide between the best answer based on what you have learned and a conceptually worse answer that happens to meet the wording of the question - and trying to guess whether the test-setter is looking to prove your understanding or catch you in a mistake - then you start to suspect that the course has been designed more as a way to earn grades than to actually learn.
von Nguyen T T
•Aug 21, 2016
It lacks of video lectures so I had to rely on notes only. The course's content is interesting and has potential to give learner more depth of topics. Hope it will be improved soon.
von Lampros B
•Nov 11, 2017
Videos had almost nothing to add. Gaps in theory and terminology. Some terms appeared in the tests for the first time. Bibliography and additional material for further understanding should be added. Very interesting topic. Course should me more extensive.
von J Y T
•Jan 06, 2018
My only complaint is that there is too little actual videos while the quizzes required us to study A LOT beyond the videos. Videos could have been much more comprehensive with more examples. That being said, I have never found a course so relevant and challenging.
von Chaitanya T
•Aug 22, 2017
Informative yet the presentation of the course material could have been much better in order to suite all classes of individuals(coming from a non-finance background).
von Akshay S
•Jun 23, 2018
In week 2 and 3, there is no explanation for which quiz answer is wrong and which right. It reduces the value of the course drastically, because the actual application of the learnings is not validated. This is even worse because for many questions, I wasn't 100% sure about the answer and was doubting between multiple answers (for both those where I answered right and wrong).The material as such is very interesting but it could have been so much better.
von Ramon M R
•Nov 14, 2017
Topics on the exam were not covered in the material.
von Elizabeth T
•Dec 23, 2016
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.
von Omar B
•Aug 28, 2017
The lectures need to be improved and increased instead of putting more readings
von Scott B
•May 16, 2018
Felt like most quiz questions were related to concepts not covered in the materials.
von Aastha M
•Dec 17, 2017
Although the course was an eye opener and insightful, there are a couple of things that I strongly believe could have been done better to improve the learning experience.First , solution and explanation sheet for all the quizzes is a must. Second, there were certain convoluted topics which could have been better addressed through video lecture. Overall as a subject the course definitely sparked my interest to continue further.
von David J N W
•Dec 23, 2016
The first two weeks were great, they were more behavioural economics than behavioural finance specifically. The last week was not up to scratch, readings from the popular press, not experts.
von Clarisse H M
•Mar 05, 2018
I miss some definitions about the course.
von wang g
•Dec 28, 2017
The course is simple, but the quiz have many items that the course itself does not mention. Interesting to know so many human irrational behaviors, although need to google many definitions.
von Venkatakrishnan C
•Jul 08, 2017
Good concepts but the lectures were a bit 'all over the place'. No as structured as I would have expected.
von Eddie C
•Nov 01, 2017
There could be more explanations of behavioural biases in each example given.
von Ishita D
•Feb 18, 2018
Its really nice to learn about this as it helps investors in making decisions after considering their irrational behaviour
von Korbinian S
•Jul 14, 2017
The topic is extremely intersting, and the course is completely free, if you don't need the certificate. In the course you have a lot of reading to do and the videos are not always on point. If you read Daniel Kahnemann's Thinking fast and slow, you will get more out of this particular subject.
von Lori C
•Apr 30, 2018
Basic introduction to Behavioral Finance - mostly application of terms on exams that did not tie to lect
von Marai C W
•Aug 20, 2016
I think this course is great as an introduction to behavioral finance, however I think the content lacks depth and is rather superficial.
von Parv C
•Sep 21, 2017
Not very easy to understand specially for someone without much background on finance and economics.
von Juan C
•Jul 01, 2018
This course gives you a basic understanding of the main financial biases. Everything is shown mostly through examples which, in general, are very interesting. However, in my opinion, the course is very disorganized. Instead of devoting a single section to one topic, topics are spread through several several pdf's. This makes it very difficult to review one topic, as you have no other choice but to glance through all the pdf's to view the material on a single topic. Also, the videos are kind of irrelevant as they simply and very briefly summarize parts of the pdf's that you have already seen without providing any additional content or value.
von Stéphan C
•Sep 17, 2017
Interesting course, nevertheless, many concepts find very useful definition, only as the replies to the quizz.
Same thing for the last quizz which explains the different biases during "bubbles", but do not give advices on how to bypass them
von Sara H
•Jun 01, 2018
Good information provided. A little bit hard to keep up pay attention to the video lectures.