#decisionscience — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-lyLNjQfRQJKEoDaSRVJTpw%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

Do U.S. voters realize the scale and cost of the 47th #POTUS's *drastic* #immigration "slow-walking"?

This backlog is bigger than ALL FOUR YEARS of the 45th POTUS's term.

It's stopped TONS of #science by removing work authorization from LOADS of #scientists who were ALREADY LEGALLY WORKING HERE FOR YEARS (e.g., when graduating Ph.D. #students or #postdocs have to transition to an H-1B #visa when OPT expires).

We had to halt multiple #decisionScience projects when a Research Project Manager completed their doctorate. Why? Because #USCIS simply isn't processing certain #OPT applications — and #H1B processing is much slower than normal times. In the past year, the #UnitedStates multiplied this loss of #innovation and #productivity by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS! And with no detectable benefit to #security, etc.

Naturally, the highest-skilled foreign nationals are taking their skills to other countries, contributing to further #brainDrain from the #USA.

Incredible waste and inefficiency.

An adversarial collaboration reports that mathematical reflection tests assess #math ability about as much as anything else. 😬

And what is the evidence that the paper's “independent” measure of reflection actually measured reflection? 🧐

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409191121

#psychometrics #psychology #cogPsych #JDM #decisionScience #economics #factorAnalysis #stats #rStats

Which subreddits score higher on deliberation metrics?

A new metric of deliberation (designed to overcome prior issues) found that the following subreddits had the highest deliberation scores (across 72 subreddits)
- Subreddits that are based on geographical regions
- Political subreddits
- Sports subreddits

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21996

#socialMedia #Reddit #publicDiscourse #decisionScience #corpusAnalysis #NLP #statistics

This week's second post introduces five characteristics of #boundedRationality and contrasts it with a received Standard Picture of #rationality.

"I suggest that we should sometimes blame the #theory." –David Thorstad, author Inquiry Under Bounds (#OUP 2024), an #openAccess book

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/07/02/inquiry-under-bounds-part-2-rationality-at-the-crossroads.aspx

#epistemology #cognitiveScience #decisionScience #history #economics #behavioralEconomics #psychology #HerbSimon #EdwardStein #science #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #pragmatism #positivism

Hi All I moved my profile over to spore, so I'll #Introduce myself

I'm Auriel (she/her) and my day job is running Forbes Biological Station, a #FieldStation in Illinois focused on research around #wetlands and wetland #birds. My specialty is #rails

I do a lot of #DecisionScience as well, and lead the #NOAAFirebird project.

I have opinions about unpaid labor.

I love #gardening and #canning and #preserving #food, #hiking, #reading #scifi, #fantasy, #thrillers, adventure, memoirs and more.