Decisions, Decisions

Not What to Decide, but How

By Dan Goldstein

Will Obama's automatic savings plans save the day?

By Dan Goldstein on March 10, 2009 - 9:15am in Decisions, Decisions

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

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

By Dan Goldstein on November 12, 2008 - 9:52am in Decisions, Decisions

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.

Sarah Palin vs Joe Biden: The Post-Election View

By Dan Goldstein on November 6, 2008 - 2:53pm in Decisions, Decisions

You know the rules from the last posts. Read More

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

By Dan Goldstein on October 27, 2008 - 10:31pm in Decisions, Decisions

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

How to increase voter turnout by asking questions

By Dan Goldstein on October 17, 2008 - 12:54pm in Decisions, Decisions

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

Sarah Palin vs Joe Biden: Round Two

By Dan Goldstein on September 25, 2008 - 8:00am in Decisions, Decisions

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.

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

By Dan Goldstein on September 1, 2008 - 8:41am in Decisions, Decisions

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

Catch a thief with pencil and ruler

By Dan Goldstein on August 7, 2008 - 3:47am in Decisions, Decisions

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

Put first things first with the help of software

By Dan Goldstein on June 15, 2008 - 6:34am in Decisions, Decisions

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.

How good are you at finding what's best? Test your intution and brains.

By Dan Goldstein on May 28, 2008 - 3:24pm in Decisions, Decisions

Good decision makers often wind up with the best things available. But how do they do they do it? Finding the best thing involves searching, but it also involves knowing when to stop searching. How good a searcher are you? Do you search too much, or just the right amount? Play this little game and find out.