A GLOBAL VIEW The Guardian newspaper in the UK made this rather amazing interactive infographic (click through to interact) on causes of death, conditioned on age and region, around the world. They also provide, below, a display of ranked causes of death, and how they’ve changed since 1990. How do people die? One thing that […]
If you ask people in the US “What generic word do you use to describe carbonated soft drinks?”, you get data that look like these. Pop in the Midwest. Coke in the South. Soda everywhere else.
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DO NOT LIE ABOUT RISK: PRESENT PROBABILITIES TRUTHFULLY OR NOT AT ALL On July 7th 2005, four bags containing bombs were left on London public transport. They exploded, killing 52 people. Bombs in two bags at the Boston Marathon this year killed three. We can imagine the policy-maker’s thinking when they came up with this […]
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ASSOCIATION FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH 2013 CONFERENCE What: ACR 2013 conference Where: Hilton Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL (map) When: October 3-6, 2013 Conference Co-chairs: Simona Botti, London Business School Aparna Labroo, University of Toronto Registration ACR 2013: Making a Difference The theme of this conference is “Making a Difference,” which was inspired by the […]
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BEHAVIORAL DECISION RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT 2014 BDRM 2014 Website Our LBS colleagues and Yuval write: The Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM) Conference will be held on July 17-19, 2014 at London Business School. Please watch your email for more information about the conference and the submission deadline after the summer. In the meantime, save […]
