Author Archives: brendano

Since I posted the link to his blog, Baron just wrote about Cardinal Schönborn’s anti-evolution Op-Ed piece. I agree absolutely that people should learn about the psychology of judgment and probability for these sorts of questions, where it’s really hard … Continue reading →

By cognitive psychologist Jon Baron When is it time to stop accruing links to yet more blogs? Blogging makes no sense whatsoever.

UPDATE: just wrote a revision of this. Pick an organism. Two propositions, H and E, each may be either true or false about it. H: the organism was designed by an intelligent creator. E: the organism looks like it was … Continue reading →

amazing: a blog on statistical inference for social science. Can’t get more hardcore than that. Well, a formal modelling (e.g. mathematical game theory) blog would be quite something too.

Decision Science News looks active & useful. The cognitive neuroscience of decision making is such a great topic — I mean, there are studies of the neurobiology of sarcasm! There are some terrific older posts on the naturally named “Neuroeconomics”. … Continue reading →

Here’s a fantastic discussion by Alex Tabarrok and Bryan Caplan on social economics research and rationality — and full of great links to current reviews & research. NB: just realized Tabarrok is one of the authors of Marginal Revolution (already … Continue reading →

WP: Computers simulate terrorist extremes Los Alamos scientists are running terrorist attack/response simulations. Well, the article title is misleading, they’re not simulating terrorists (which would pose a whole set of interesting questions about scientific knowledge, social construction and security), but … Continue reading →

Here it is! Still need to read the book. I’m a little bothered by people proclaiming it to be the first application of economic principles to social questions — hasn’t social economics been around for decades? — but the spirit … Continue reading →

Cool visualization of agreement levels among Supreme Court justices. I like how they’re ordered so that the smallest amount of agreement ends up in the lower-left. Hopefully it’s not deceptive for certain cases: I imagine that summarizing their tendencies to … Continue reading →

The current subtitle is “where {political, social, economic} crosses {cognition, behavior, systems}”. Amusingly enough, this syntax on a unix shell actually gets you the 9 combinations: ~% echo {political,social,economic}{cognition,behavior,systems} politicalcognition politicalbehavior politicalsystems socialcognition socialbehavior socialsystems economiccognition economicbehavior economicsystems Tossing together … Continue reading →