This is a guest post by Jordan Garrett, one of our undergraduate students of behavioural economics. If you wish to contact Jordan e.g. about internship opportunities etc. then please email david.comerford@stir.ac.uk and I will pass along your message. In an intimate BBC News article, a 43-year-old mother shares her secret of how she is able
This is a guest post by Ben McIvor-Redwood, one of our undergraduate students of behavioural economics. If you wish to contact Ben e.g. about internship opportunities etc. then please email david.comerford@stir.ac.uk and I will pass along your message. Recent high inflation rates of 10.4% have become a significant issue for individuals, businesses, and the economy.
This is a guest post by Patrick Whittam, one of our undergraduate students of behavioural economics. If you wish to contact Patrick e.g. about internship opportunities etc. then please email david.comerford@stir.ac.uk and I will pass along your message. During December of 2022, I was forced to take a taxi instead of taking my normal train
AI vs. human conflict will result if AI has goals that differ from those of humankind. It follows then that expressing human preferences to machines accurately, precisely and unambiguously is vital. Survey designers are key to that project. The UK government blared an unprecedented alarm through the smartphones of its residents last weekend. Just weeks
Keynote talk: How People Use Statistics by Nicolai Gennaioli We are very grateful to the excellent speakers who presented their work at this event and to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, whose Saltire Networking award made this event possible.
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Two recent papers present convergent evidence that the marketplace of ideas in academic economics is less than efficient: 1. Jorg Peters and co-authors show that comments published in the flagship American Economic Review are cited far less than the original research that they correct. Even when the authors of the original paper concede that the
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Someone wise once pointed out that the best noise a scientist can make is not “Eureka!” but rather “Hmmm… that’s odd”. On Monday Feb 20, we had two talks from two excellent guest speakers that both showed some intriguing results. The option to impose monetary punishments on freeriders has been shown to increase cooperation in
Congratulations to all our staff on the MSc Behavioural Science. For the third year in a row, our program achieved a score of 100% student satisfaction in the industry-standard PTES survey. Given ongoing efforts from Till, Craig, Seda, myself, Allison Butler (program administrator), our guest lecturers and Pete Lunn (our external examiner) to make the