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Monthly Archive June, 2007

Jobs at UCSD

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, HIRING MARKETING PROFESSORS UCSD’s business school is small but growing fast, and is already home to decision researchers such as On Amir, David Schkade, Uri Gneezy, Craig McKenzie. The Marketing area is hiring. Since Marketing is JDM with teeth, Decision Science News readers may be interested: The Rady School of […]

Beyond shifting eyes and shifting posture

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A BETTER WAY TO DECIDE ABOUT LYING   Aldert Vrij and other researchers at the University of Portsmouth have found that often-recommended lie detection methods, such as looking for verbal or visual cues of deception, aren’t terribly effective. A promising approach may be to ask interviewees to answer in a more cognitively-demanding fashion, such as […]

Should you test for statistical significance?

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ARGUMENTS AGAINST ALL SIGNIFICANCE TESTS This week, the always-provocative J. Scott Armstrong submits this comment to Decision Science News: “About two years ago, I was a reasonable person who argued that tests of statistical significance were useful in some limited situations. After completing research for “Significance tests harm progress in forecasting” in the International Journal […]

2007 AMA interviews: The Marketing-Professor job market is here

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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE AMA INTERVIEWS FOR THE ACADEMIC MARKETING JOB MARKET Today at DSN we re-publish a piece Dan Goldstein first published here in 2005. WHY AM I WRITING THIS? I’ve seen the Marketing job market turn happy grad students into quivering masses of fear. I want to share my […]