Behavioral Science and Policy Association PolicyShop Blog

Decision Science News readers may be interested in the Behavioral Science and Policy Association’s PolicyShop blog.
Decision Science News readers may be interested in the Behavioral Science and Policy Association’s PolicyShop blog.
How many calories should you eat per day, based on your age, sex, and activity level? Here are the US government’s recommendations.
We were surprised to see that R has passed SAS for scholarly use. We were surprised because we assumed this would have happened years ago.
Suppose you divide the range by four instead of taking the standard deviation. How accurate will you be?
Here’s a tool that encourages simple, forceful writing.
PhD students in Marketing, Psychology, and Economics should send their “packets” out by the fourth of July in the hopes of lining up interviews at the annual AMA Summer Conference. Each year DSN reprints this sort of “what to expect while you’re applying” guide, first published here by Dan Goldstein in 2005.
What if people could only publish five papers before tenure? Some people hate this idea, but it might help with some problems.
If you have not seen John Oliver’s hilarious rant about bad science from his program Last Week Tonight, you should do so for it is hilarious.
Have some free data on the correlation between loss aversion and risk aversion
We experimented with every aspect of making coffee. What we found surprised us.