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Lemonade and the question of (laboratory) evidence

I published this article on December 18, 2017 here. I reproduce it here as is, with the addition of the graph below. Ariely was Lemonade’s…

Jun 26

Lemonade and the question of (laboratory) evidence

Jun 26

The Current Australian Debate over Nuclear Energy.

Note: A few updates and additional references at the end.

Jun 23

The Current Australian Debate over Nuclear Energy.

Jun 23

“pardon the ignorance, Why is it essential to substantiate statements for investors?”

My LinkedIn correspondent reacted to this post of mine:

Jun 16

“pardon the ignorance, Why is it essential to substantiate statements for investors?”

Jun 16

Elections to the European Parliament — a preliminary post mortem

Europeans just elected a new European Parliament.

Jun 10

Elections to the European Parliament — a preliminary post mortem

Jun 10

Are AI chatbots behaviorally similar to humans?

Mei et al. (PNAS 2024) report a “Turing test” of whether AI chatbots are behaviorally similar to humans by having them play six different…

May 21

Are AI chatbots behaviorally similar to humans?

May 21

On AI agents and their limitations in experimental work

Came across an intriguing paper by a colleague of mine in the School of Information Systems and Technology Management here at UNSW. A…

May 18

On AI agents and their limitations in experimental work

May 18

Humans are Large Language Models, only better.

As I have been reading and discussing large language models, I find I’ve learned as much about us humans as I have about the AI that…

May 12

Humans are Large Language Models, only better.

May 12

In memoriam Seth Roberts (1953–2014)

I published this tribute ten years ago here.

Apr 25

Apr 25

On that recent Publishing Economics study: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?

The long time that it takes in economics for papers to go from submission to acceptance and publication has been a long-known and…

Mar 12

Mar 12

About that new mega-study on the effectiveness of honesty oaths

You might have heard about that new megastudy pre-print, currently — to judge from the formatting — under review at Nature or one of its…

Mar 9

Mar 9

Andreas Ortmann

Andreas Ortmann

EconProf: I post occasionally on whatever tickles my fancy: Science, evidence production, the Econ tribe, Oz politics, etc. Y’all r entitled to my opinions …

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