SIMPLE WAYS TO DETECT AND COMMUNICATE STATISTICAL EFFECTS Decision Science News is fond of heuristics and the Simonian view that for many problems organisms face, optimization is a fiction and satisficing makes us smart. Statistics is an area in which it is easy to see precision that isn’t there and find “optima” in problems that […]
SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH 2008 Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research Call for Papers We invite submissions to the Fourth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR 08) to be hosted in New York City by NYU Stern’s Center for Digital Economy Research, on May 18th and 19th, 2008. […]
THE SOCIAL LEARNING STRATEGIES TOURNAMENT Kevin Laland and Luke Rendell have received funding from the European Commission to organize a major international multi-disciplinary tournament on the evolution of social learning, inspired by Robert Axelrod’s famous Prisoner’s Dilemma tournaments on the evolution of cooperation. In recent years there has been a lot of interest (spanning several […]
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RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN COGNITION AND DECISION MAKING AT MAX PLANCK – BERLIN Decision Science News got its start at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition in Berlin, Germany and can attest that it is one of the sweetest, if not the sweetest, research posts on the planet. All research, no teaching, and next to […]
CAN PSYCHOLOGISTS HELP DOCTORS MAKE BETTER DECISIONS? Gerd Gigerenzer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has a piece in this month’s APA Observer about helping physicians understand screening tests. Some choice quotes: Medical doctors tend to think of psychologists as therapists, useful for emotionally disturbed patients, but not for members […]
