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New York has, in the last years, joined the list of cities that require calorie counts to be posted on the menus of chain restaurants. Early research suggests that the labeling is not terribly effective.
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Two posts ago we showed you the digit sound system for remembering numbers. This week we provide two computer programs to help you create mnemonics.
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At Decision Science News, we have all kinds of numbers memorized: IP addresses, passport numbers, phone numbers, bank account numbers, logarithms, etc. Once you have stuff like this memorized, you’ll start to realize how much less of a hassle it is to have things in memory rather than on paper or disk. Besides, it’s fun.
But how is it done?
It is done with the digit-sound method, which we learned from Professor Jaap Murre’s neuroMod site at the University of Amsterdam.
This week, DSN suggests watching a couple videos. First, this captivating Errol Morris short, The Umbrella Man, over at the New York Times. Next, this clip of Sofitel Hotel security guards dancing in a back room shortly after their colleague reported a sexual assault by Dominique-Strauss Kahn. Lastly, the famous case of People vs. Collins.
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Stanislas Dehaene and colleagues surveyed Mundurucu participants (in the Amazon) and Western participants (in the USA) on where they felts numbers lie on a scale from from 10-100. Specifically, participants had an interface like that pictured above, with 10 dots on the left and 100 dots on the right. They were then shown between 10 and 100 dots and asked to click on the line where they would fall.
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It is not uncommon to have two computers at work, four at home and a server out on the wild, wild internet (that’s what we have, anyway … wait, we forgot one in London). How to keep all these files in sync? Here are our file synchronization tips.
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Decision Science News has posted before on Zhao, Lynch, and Chen’s practical article on mediation analysis. John Lynch has written the following, re-emphasizing the article’s main points:
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This week, two fun Econ-Finance papers. First is Steven Levitt and Thomas Miles’ analysis of whether poker is a game of skill. Next the famous Fama-French duo ask the same question of mutual fund management.
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Decision Science News readers know about Hal Hershfield and Dan Goldstein’s experiments in which they exposed people to interactive images of their future self to see how it would impact their saving behavior (pictured above).
The idea was sent up in three Saturday Night Live fake commercials for Lincoln Financial. The SNL interactions with the future self were a lot more awkward than ours, but maybe that’s a good thing for changing behavior?
