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Good news about Ruth Coleman, member of our reading group
Folks, See the SF Chronicle article below on fellow member Ruth Coleman – the Chronicle says she played an important role in reversing the Governor’s decision to close parks. “According to a source close to the governor’s office, three factors wer… Continue reading
Question about how to answer the experiments
It became obvious that we all fell into patterns of answers that were in line with the study he is doing, and in line with how most people behaviorally answer these questions. My question is – given that Eric told us that is what most people do, a… Continue reading
BTD: multiple factors? overconfidence and collective intelligence?
Phil- Really enjoyed the session, and have a couple of question for Dr. Gold. If he plans to cover them in future sessions, I can wait. Does research give evidence of a interaction of 2 factors, anchoring and over-confidence? Example: would an eco… Continue reading
Thanks, next steps on the course
Folks, Quick note of thanks for participating in this first class session – again, apologize for technical glitches. We’ll iron those out for the next session. Next steps: – Reading assignment for June phone callRead in your Hastie & Dawes textboo… Continue reading
Behavioral Psychology and Economics May 2008 – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for Behavioral Psychology and Economics May 2008 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Behavioral-May2008-Call1.mp3 Continue reading
Behavioral Psychology and Economics course dates
Thursdays: May 15, June 19, August 14, and September 111pm – 2:30pm NYC (10am Pacific)plus in-person session at the October meetings 800-416-8128913-643-5111 international563610# Continue reading
visiting Greece
All, I will be going to Greece next Thursday (the 22nd) to visit family (my mother is Greek). I will be in Athens, stopping at Corinth on the way to Pyrgos (the town next door to Olympia) in the Peleponesus. I will have my xeroxed pages from Landm… Continue reading
Herodotus turns up in the most unlikely of places…
So I am reading an advance copy of David Carr’s memoir “Night of the Gun,” where he details his many years as a junkie, and Herodotus turns up as the father of not just history, but alcoholism: “Booze has a nice, fat track record, dating back to s… Continue reading
some thoughts.
All,Last night’s discussion has stayed with me for some reason. Like many, I only finished reading the text at lunch, so I didn’t have a lot of time to reflect. Here’s what comes to mind since: 1. In retrospect, I am not sure Phil and Pat ultimate… Continue reading
Herodotus Online Link
I know some people find it a pain to cart that large physical version of the book around on planes etc. (I will confess to being one). As such I wanted to share that I found an easy way to download it to your notebook (albeit the Rawlinson transla… Continue reading →
27. May 2008 by Arrian
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