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Monthly Archive June, 2011

Should you buy collision insurance?

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DSN RUMINATES ABOUT INSURANCE WITH PETER MCGRAW   This week, Decision Science News’ Dan Goldstein travels to Boulder, and teams up with Peter McGraw for a joint post (over grilled steak). — Enjoy Most people are happy to have a few types of insurance coverage, typically home, health, and life insurance. However, you can insure […]

SJDM 2011, Seattle, Nov 5-7, 2011

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2011 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) invites abstracts for symposia, oral presentations, and posters on any interesting topic related to judgment and decision making. Completed manuscripts are not required. Details are available here: http://www.sjdm.org/programs/2011-cfp.html

The no-decision diet revealed

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Last week, Decision Science News posted about a “no-decision diet” in which its editor followed, for one week and without exceptions, a healthy diet designed by someone else. Since then, a number of people have written in asking to have a look at the diet. If you were hoping to find out what the diet included, today is your lucky day.

A diet of diet, an exercise in exercise

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How I suspended decisions about what to eat for one week and lost 15 pounds thereafter.

Questioning the evidence of influence in social networks

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In a short span of time, two articles have emerged that question some notable claims of influence in social networks. This does seem important, so we list them here.