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How much “customer interaction uncertainty” does your business deal with? The answer should guide your thinking about AI.
The average might come in handy for certain data analyses, but is any one person really ‘average’?
The complexity of the financial market is far beyond the information processing capabilities of human cognition.
Policymakers rely on models during uncertain times to figure out how their choices could affect the future. Over the pandemic, an ensemble of many COVID-19 models outperformed any one alone.
Made at a time when America was facing crises on many fronts, William Friedkin’s film has profound things to say about humanity and society.
Weaver ants organise themselves into bridges to cross gaps and explore new territory – and new research shows this collective behaviour is governed by a surprisingly simple decision-making rule.
A world without pastoralists would not only be a poorer place, but we would lose an important lifeline to our collective future.
To be useful in high-stakes situations, AI needs to understand cause and effect – and the limits of its knowledge.
‘Career portfolioing’ is a trend where people assemble different sources of income, such as side gigs, to give them a measure of independence from employers who provide little job security.
An anthropologist explains why we all have some irrational beliefs and the reason they give us comfort.
How doctors care for their patients is highly influenced by clinical guidelines. Recommendations based on anecdotal experience or poor data can harm patients.
People tend to dislike uncertainty and risk – two things that are hard to avoid completely during a pandemic. That’s part of why it can feel especially draining to make even small decisions these days.
Uncertainty must be embraced and harnessed for the better because stability never lasts long.
People often try to seem confident and certain in their message so it will be trusted and acted upon. But when information is in flux, research suggests you should be open about what you don’t know.
Comparing ourselves to people who are worse off than we are on social media should make us feel better. The opposite is true.
Just because something isn’t 100% certain doesn’t mean you ignore it, and other lessons from two researchers who study the problem of science denial.
Just when things seemed to be getting back to COVID normal, a new variant has us worried all over again. But we can be kind to our brains and boost well-being in uncertain times.
High levels of uncertainty can make us obsessive compulsive, causing physical changes in the brain.
Understanding liminality and its origins can provide ways to better understand the foggy, ambiguous space we’re experiencing right now.
Top contributors
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Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
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Research Fellow in Geoscientific Modelling, The University of Western Australia
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Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Lecturer in Statistics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Data science research engineer, Monash University
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Adjunct Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professor of Finance and Fred T. Tattersall Excellence in Finance Research Chair, West Virginia University
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Research scientist, Data61
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Principal Research Scientist, Data61
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Loughborough University
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Lecturer, Finance, University of Liverpool
