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DECISION SCIENCE NEWS HEADING TOWARD 1000 SUBSCRIBERS This 100 day moving average of RSS subscriptions to Decision Science News seems to suggest that readership is up, though one cannot know for sure without conducting elaborate significance tests. The site currently gets 3000 hits per day. Decision Science News was created in 2004 as a kind […]
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DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM? This post got us thinking about chart critique. Charts are things we like to judge, as graph rating systems, and the name of the blog Junk Charts suggest. What we wonder is will science ever be able to separate chart opinions from chart knowledge? Chart doxa from chart episteme? Consider […]
DOES EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE SUPPORT PARACHUTE USE? In 2003, the characteristically less-than-hilarious BMJ published a satirical article entitled “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.” It has its funny parts. The authors’ point is summarized in the abstract’s conclusion: Conclusions: As with many interventions intended […]
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JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY The Decision Science News editor got his start at Carnegie Mellon University’s Children’s School and is happy to let readers know that the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University seeks candidates to fill a junior-level tenure track position in behavioral decision research. Candidates must demonstrate […]
GERD GIGERENZER ON IGNORING INFORMATION FOR BETTER DECISIONS Who: Gerd Gigerenzer, Director, Max Planck Institute, Berlin What: The Rationality of Heuristics: Ignoring Information for Better Decisions Where: Westminster Business School, Hogg Lecture Theatre When: 17h15-19h The academic year in London will get off to a stimulating start as one of Psychology’s leading intellectuals, Gerd Gigerenzer, […]
