POSITIVE / NEGATIVE / ZERO SUM ADVICE AND THE JOB MARKET Every year, Decision Science News republishes this wonderful, caring advice on the AMA (Marketing) job market. Recently, our friend and kindred blogger Andrew Gelman asked how much of the advice is positive sum. Your humble editor, not knowing much about what positive sum advice […]
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THE MPG ILLUSION In their carpooling conversations, friends of Decision Science News Rick Larrick and Jack Soll have a come up with poignant example of how information that is mathematically equivalent is psychologically different (to paraphrase Feynman). Their “miles per gallon illusion” has been passed by our editorial staff to policy makers and may someday, […]
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useR! CONFERENCE, AUGUST 12-14 2008, DORTMUND GERMANY Impressive statistical computing types like Andrew Gelman, Gary King, and others will be presenting at this year’s useR! conference. Decision Science News might just have to hop over and check it out. The program looks great. Those interested in learning R might be interested in our Decision Science […]
FIND THINGS FAST ON WINDOWS A good theory of decision making needs to account for the fact that searching for information has real costs. For this reason, decision makers use different strategies when the information is conveniently laid out before them (as in the information-matrix paradigm) and when information is tucked away in memory or […]
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CALL FOR PAPERS: SJDM 2008 PRE-CONFERENCE. DEADLINE SEPT 1, 2008 Society for Judgment and Decision Making Preconference 2008: Using Human Nature to Improve Human Life. November 14, 2008. Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL. The University of Chicago’s Center for Decision Research announces that it will host a preconference to this year’s SJDM Annual Meeting, featuring research […]
