SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY UTILITY AND DECISION MAKING CONFERENCE 2009 Decision Science News will attend the Subjective Probability Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM22) conference, which will be held in Rovereto (Italy) from Sunday, the 23rd till Thursday, the 27th of August 2009. The deadline for the online submission of abstracts for papers/posters/symposia is April 10, 2009. Visit the […]
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CREATE AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED R CHARTS AND TABLES INSIDE WORD & EXCEL Decision Science News’ imagination has been recently captured by an innovative product called Inference for R. (R as in the open-source language for statistical computation.) To use it, you simply insert some code into your Microsoft Office documents. The Inference product connects to the […]
ASSOCIATION FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH CONFERENCE, PITTSBURGH, PA, OCT 22-25 2009 Decision Science News will return to the city of its birth for this year’s Association for Consumer Research (ACR) conference. Will you? What:The Association for Consumer Research Annual North American Conference When: October 22 – 25, 2009 Where: Westin Convention Center Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA, USA […]
AUTOMATIC INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS The New York Times has an interesting article called Savings Accounts for All: Simple but not Easy, which talks of the Obama administration’s plans to set up an automatic IRAs (Individual Retirement Accounts) for workers in the USA. This is clearly policy in the behavioral economics / Nudge tradition, which is […]
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THE VALUE OF NOT FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS As Shane Frederick has noted, if you say “A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much is the ball?”, you will notice that the vast majority of your friends will say “10 cents” instead of the correct “5 cents”, because […]
