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Dan Goldstein is Assistant Professor at London Business School and Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research. See full bio

October 26, 2009

Can You Spot a Coincidence?

When does a coincidence deserve a shrug of the shoulders, and when does it suggest that something's amiss? Read More

March 10, 2009

Will Obama's automatic savings plans save the day?

The New York Times has an interesting article called Savings Accounts for All: Simple but not Easy, which talks of the Obama administration's plans to set up an automatic IRAs (Individual Retirement Accounts) for workers in the USA. Read More

November 12, 2008

Let's find the world's best player of this game

Do you have brainy friends in your social network? We're trying to find the best players in the world at a game of skill and luck.

November 6, 2008

Sarah Palin vs Joe Biden: The Post-Election View

You know the rules from the last posts. Read More

October 27, 2008

How many rich and poor people are there in the USA?

Think you know it all? A good deal of decision-making research centers around people's abilities to make accurate estimates and inferences.

Those who like to test their knowledge might be interested in this fun video game / Web experiment put together by myself and Lionel Page. Read More

October 17, 2008

How to increase voter turnout by asking questions

Columbia University's Eric Johnson and Elke Weber have created Teachers4Turnout, a Web site / classroom activity to encourage voting among students. Read More

September 25, 2008

Sarah Palin vs Joe Biden: Round Two

Last time, we looked at whether the Internet thought that Sarah Palin and Joe Biden were considered good or bad choices. This week, the completely unscientific and undoubtedly flawed investigation continues as we look at how things stand 25 days later.

September 1, 2008

Was choosing Sarah Palin a good decision or a bad decision?

This week, a completely unscientific and undoubtedly flawed investigation of whether Sarah Palin was a good or bad pick for VP.

August 7, 2008

Catch a thief with pencil and ruler

It's time to play CSI, so put on your detective's hat. A series of burglaries has been committed, all by the same thief. You plot the crime locations on a map. Now you have to decide where to look for the bad guy. Many ideas come flooding to mind, but which one to go with? You only have limited time and effort to spend on this ... Read More

June 15, 2008

Put first things first with the help of software

Ever find yourself frittering away the day responding to email after email? Ever think that if you'd just spent 8 hours working on that project, you'd be done and still have time to answer those emails in front of the TV later that night? Sure, we all have. Help is on the way.

Behavioral Economics Basics

Why do we often think we know what we want, only to be disappointed with our purchases and choices? Behavioral economics studies just how irrational we humans can be.

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