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That game is common in credit scoring classes for fresh analysts. The class is split into small teams. Each team is given ten anonymized, but real, credit applications and corresponding credit bureau pulls. Five from customers who subsequently defaulted, and other five from customers who paid the loan back. Each team tries to guess which are which. The team that makes the most correct guesses wins.

Then the results are compared with FICO score, and usually FICO is clearly better. Even with people with banking experience on the teams it's very rare to see humans beat the model, partly because humans tend to base their decisions on irrelevant details and their own biases.

parent pps43 8 years ago

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