Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Becker, J., Almaatouq, A., & Horvát, E.-Á. (2021). Network Structures of Collective Intelligence: The Contingent Benefits of Group Discussion. arXiv. doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is:
Costello, T. H., Pelrine, K., Kowal, M., Arechar, A. A., Godbout, J.-F., Gleave, A., Rand, D., & Pennycook, G. (2026). Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies. arXiv. doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Maybe they could only afford half the dataset
Yes! I like the part in the R inferno about "don't grow an object". But if you pre-allocate you can do all kinds of things really fast.
Informative and hilarious #goals
From our group (Economics and Computation) at Microsoft Research
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Opportunities for funding and more from Microsoft's AI Economy Institute
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How Significant are Significant Results?
How Powerful are Power Analyses
Nordic policies (childcare, parental leave, etc) support two adults working and Nordic expensiveness motivates it
Love it
I feel pretty safe in saying that Canada would win under any reasonable approach. It's two to five times longer than the next country under a couple different measurement schemes.
Wikipedia even leads with that
You might be surprised to learn that Canada is the country with the most coastline but this picture should fix that
Please don't say "from Duckworth," that's not how it works :)
Relevant? arxiv.org/abs/2502.02880
My bank texted me a code and then rejected it as incorrect and I was like look I'm just trying to be helpful and if you know the code then why are you asking me?
What's more, as English speakers we don't feel the language barrier pains that others do. This is a very big deal for much of the world!
Perhaps people having the ability to understand the language anywhere in the world offsets an exam proctoring challenge that will take months to overcome
Imagine going anywhere on earth and being able to understand the language
www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/g...
I went to an airport somewhere that had a "recombobulation area" after security
Remember when people talked about the Winter Olympics and the opening ceremony was a big deal?
It was yesterday btw
You rarely hear the word glottal outside the context of stops
Who can I contact about getting a block list?
You clearly can't be trusted with that information Jeff!
It's so cold that soap bubbles freeze then burst, leaving behind frozen skeletons
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: DeKay, M. L. (in press). Risky-choice framing effects persist when option descriptions are matched and complete: A replication and extension of DeKay and Dou (2024). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Dietvorst, B. J. (in press). Understanding people's preferences for predictions: People prioritize being right over minimizing how wrong they are in expectation. Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...
What's more, the type of person who would decide to become a film critic is the type of person who wouldn't like this movie. The people who would like it are not film critics so they are not included in the tomatometer score.
yes!
