SIMPLE RULES FOR DIETING This is what we’ve figured out from our experiments. Live 1.5 miles from your workplace. It’s too short to drive, so you just walk. Stop deciding what to eat for a week. Worked for us. Eat the same thing for breakfast every day (source: Brian Wansink). He’s found correlational evidence for […]
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Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality
Foundations for an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory
3 – 10 July, 2012
Directed by Gerd Gigerenzer
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
We just realized something. One of those “no duh” moments.
If you are on a News site and there is a link to an article like “Tens of Thousands Protest in Moscow” and it has a little padlock symbol next to it meaning that it is for subscribers only, it is not a big deal. You can just type “thousands protest moscow” into a search engine and find out what is going on.
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THE BERLIN NUMERACY TEST We’ve written before about the challenges of communicating risks. Can people understand the risks inherent in their savings plans, loans, surgeries, or medications? This week, researchers have published a new instrument designed to very quickly assess exactly that (www.riskliteracy.org). We introduce the Berlin Numeracy Test, a new psychometrically sound instrument that […]
