Academic

Judgment call: everyone benefits when decision making is improved
In a recently published paper, experts in decision making Dolly Chugh, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max Bazerman asked an important question, “How Can Decision Making Be Improved?” (PDF): We propose that the time has come to move the study of biases in judgment and decision making beyond description and toward the development of improvement strategies...

UK Parliament Labs
A new blog here dedicated not to the science of producing an MP but to the work of the Web team at the Houses of Parliament. From the Blog:"This is a blog from the Web Centre team working in the Houses of Parliament...

The TimesMachine
Back in September we joined the chorus of praise for the New York Times’ decision to make a whackload of their archives available free (Some NY Times Articles Now Free). Now the folks at the Times have shown once again that they really are interested in making their data available, this time by releasing a [...

How Can Decision Making Be Improved
HBS has published a Working Paper by Chugh, Milkman, and Bazerman on How Can Decision Making Be Improved? They pose the problem as follows: If we all behaved optimally, costs and benefits would always be accurately weighed, impatience would not...

Softball: Have Talent
To: All BoaltiesFrom: Bad News Bearisters In the third year of epic Bad News Bearisters tradition, our flagship Boalt team is in need of a few more players. If anyone can (a) throw a softball, (b) catch a softball, and (c) hit a softball and WON'T SHOW UP DRUNK, then we want to see what you can do...

The Impact of Ideology on Judicial Decision Making
A few months ago, Justice Scalia claimed that his socially conservative personal views did not affect his judicial decision making. When he made that claim, I expressed some surprise because it flies in the face of a lot of what...

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

False Claims
Attorney Robert Arledge ordered to pay $5.8 million after making false Fen Phen settlement claims.