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
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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
Pop composer Burt Bacharach died last week. Do You Know the Way to San Jose?; Walk On By; The Look of Love; (They long to be) Close to You; Say a Prayer; What the World Needs Now Is Love – that’s all Burt’s music. My premise is that Bacharach and lyricist Hal David wrote the
Shona Matthews presented yesterday on her paper “Could lenders insulate Britain?: The potential of the annual mortgage statement as a trigger to motivate homeowners to make thermal efficiency home improvements.” Shona Matthews is a very worthy winner of the Keep Scotland Beautiful award for the dissertation that best promotes sustainability. Read more about the event