[ View menu ]

Monthly Archive December, 2019

How visualizing inferential uncertainty can mislead readers about treatment effects in scientific results

Filed in Conferences ,Ideas
Subscribe to Decision Science News by Email (one email per week, easy unsubscribe)

STANDARD ERRORS VS STANDARD DEVIATIONS Click to enlarge There’s an ancient haiku that goes: People confuse a well-estimated mean with a certain outcome Ok, that’s not true. But Jake Hofman, Dan Goldstein, and Jessica Hullman have a new paper (recently accepted at CHI 2020) about this. They bet you’ll think the results of their paper […]

Foundations of Utility and Risk (FUR) Conference, Sydney, July 1-4, 2020

Filed in Conferences
Subscribe to Decision Science News by Email (one email per week, easy unsubscribe)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2020 The Foundations of Utility and Risk (FUR) Conference will, for the first time, take place in the Asia Pacific area in 2020. We invite all Economists and other Social Scientists interested in the study of Decision-making to submit papers to the conference. Since 1982, FUR gathers every two years […]