Andy Timm
Jim Savage calls the MaxDiff model of discrete choice a “mathematically incorrect model of a psychologically incoherent concept”1. Despite this lovely dunk, and some wonderful notes explaining why MaxDiff’s not great, the model remains frequently used, most prominently in market research, as...
Alex Etz
I recently gave a lab presentation on the work we have been doing to attempt to mitigate the nefarious effects of publication bias, and I thought I’d share the slides here. The first iteration of the method (details given in Guan and Vandekerckhove, 2016), summarized in the first half of the...
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[Update: I have fixed some broken links, and modified the discussion of QBism and the recent paper by Chris Fuchs— thanks to Chris himself for taking the time to read and find my mistakes!] For some reason, I’ve come across an idea called “Knightian Uncertainty” quite a bit lately. Frank Knight...
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I recently finished my last term lecturing our second-year Quantum Mechanics course, which I taught for five years. It’s a required class, a mathematical introduction to one of the most important set of ideas in all of physics, and really the basis for much of what we do, whether that’s...