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AI Thinks Like Us – Flaws and All: New Study Finds ChatGPT Mirrors Human Decision Biases in Half the Tests
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 1, 2025 – Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says … not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gambler’s) fallacy yet acting inhuman in others (e.g., not suffering from base-rate neglect or sunk cost fallacies).

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In 2025, you can’t have an effective democracy without data literacy
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You are swimming in an ocean of data and don’t even realize it. All around you are invisible amounts of data that would be staggering to try to comprehend. Thousands of smartphones and smart devices are talking to, sending and downloading vast amounts of data, video, audio, words, numbers, images, you name it. Everything from the latest movie on Netflix to someone’s radiology results from a cancer screening.

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Shell Shocked: How Small Eateries Are Dealing With Record Egg Prices
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Mom-and-pop businesses are trying to adapt to the soaring cost of eggs. The owners of four egg-centric restaurants across the country show how they are coping with this threat to their livelihoods.

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Freight Labor Unrest Is Going Global and Weighing on Supply Chains

Freight Labor Unrest Is Going Global and Weighing on Supply Chains

Hellenic Shipping News, September 26, 2022

From seaport docks in Los Angeles and Liverpool to rail yards in Chicago and warehouses in Europe and the U.S., clashes between cargo workers and management have been rising this year, adding complications and uncertainty to the flow of goods around the world.

Podcast #189 — Why We Travel; When The First Flight Isn’t Best

Podcast #189 — Why We Travel; When The First Flight Isn’t Best

Travel Commons, September 22, 2022

Lots of different voices in this episode. Listeners growing our list of travel tips, and conversations with Dr. Sheldon Jacobson about why one of those tips — always catch the first flight out — isn’t always right, and Patricia Schultz about her new book, Why We Travel: 100 Reasons to See the World. All this and more – click here to download the podcast file, go up to the Subscribe section in the top menu bar to subscribe on your favorite site, or listen right here by clicking on the arrow on the player.

Decision Science Digest: September 22, 2022

Decision Science Digest: September 22, 2022

Journal Paper, September 22, 2022
  • Creating Innovation: New Research Uses Ikea Products to Develop New Uses for Products (INFORMS journal Management Science)
  • New Research Finds Obvious Impacts to Brands Showing Support for Black Lives Matter (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)
  • New Research Reduces Traffic Congestion in San Francisco by Increasing the Usage of Electronic Toll System (INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics)
  • No More Government Food Vouchers? Data Suggests a Way to Allow Healthy Choices to Continue in an Affordable Way (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)

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