AND WHY ARE THERE MORE MEN THAN WOMEN IN WESTERN US CITIES? Since seeing this map, Decision Science News can’t quite figure it out. Why do the surpluses of men and women look as they do? What’s up with California? Source of map: http://creativeclass.com/whos_your_city/maps/#The_Singles_Map
INFORMATION THAT AIDS TRAVEL DECISION-MAKING If you type the name of an airline and flight number into Google, it tells you the flight status information: For example, if one types “jetblue 301”, one gets Track status of B6 301 from Washington (IAD) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 24 Jun 2009 – On schedule Departed: 8:02 AM, […]
POSTDOC IN DECISION MAKING AT DUKE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Since the job market for business school profs may be lousy this year, grad students might want to take note of this posdoctoral opportunity at Duke. Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business invites applications for a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of Behavioral […]
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2009 MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING LOCATION, DATES, AND PROGRAM SJDM’s annual conference will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA during November 21-23, 2009. Early registration and welcome reception will take place the evening of Friday, November 20. Hotel reservations at the $175 Psychonomic convention rate can […]
THE PROS AND CONS OF TEACHING HEURISTICS FOR STATISTICS All smart statisticians use rules of thumb. DSN has noticed that as soon as one statistician codifies or pronounces a rule of thumb, smart alecs come along with special cases that violates the rule thereby “proving” the rule and the person who articulated it “wrong”. (Smart […]
