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Judgment & ambiguity · Calibrating confidence

You’re presenting a valuation to an investment committee and the answer swings materially on one assumption — a discount rate, an exit multiple — that you can’t pin down precisely. How do you express how sure you actually are, without either false precision or useless hedging?

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You’re presenting a valuation to an investment committee and the answer swings materially on one assumption — a discount rate, an exit multiple — that you can’t pin down precisely. How do you express how sure you actually are, without either false precision or useless hedging?

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