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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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Your Employer May Be Spying on You—and Wasting Its Time

Your Employer May Be Spying on You—and Wasting Its Time

Scientific American, August 16, 2019

Within any large organization, some employee teams always perform better than others—but the reasons are often murky. In 2010 then doctoral student Ben Waber embedded himself in the offices of Travelco, an online travel agency, to figure out what factors make a team productive. He noted that all the employees worked in the same headquarters, sat in the same meeting rooms, and enjoyed the same snacks and Foosball tables. But when he observed certain interactions among them, he says, “there was something really weird”: he saw members of the most effective teams tended to eat in groups of 12, while employees from lower-performing teams usually ate in groups of four.

Square feet could stumble over reduced booze use

Square feet could stumble over reduced booze use

The Oklahoman, August 17, 2019

Drink less, lease less; use pot, lease a lot — could that become a real estate axiom for our times? A new trend could reduce demand for commercial real estate, leased or owned, from warehouse to distribution to retail space: Not drinking. Or at least drinking less.

TRAFFIC! Walkable, bikeable cities becoming future options

TRAFFIC! Walkable, bikeable cities becoming future options

Cleveland Daily Banner, August 6, 2019

Cleveland resident Gina Simpson enjoys sipping coffee while her children munch pastries at Ocoee Coffee on Ocoee Street in Cleveland. While it may not be unusual for a young mom and her kids to enjoy some time together at a local café, they had arrived at the destination while riding their bicycles along the Cleveland/Bradley County Greenway and system of sidewalks.

2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics focuses on accelerating innovation in corn hybrid development

2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics focuses on accelerating innovation in corn hybrid development

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 15, 2019

Syngenta and the Analytics Society of INFORMS today launched the 2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics, a competition that seeks analytical approaches to improve complex crop breeding processes. Data analytics, mathematics and statistics students, as well as professionals worldwide are invited to enter by Jan. 21, 2020. Using real-world crop data, entrants are tasked to develop models that can predict the performance of potential corn products.

When the cardiology patient ends up in the oncology care ward

When the cardiology patient ends up in the oncology care ward

NewsCaf, August 15, 2019

If you end up needing to go to the hospital, often times you re hoping to get a bed without having to wait hours, but a new study shows you may want to wait a little longer, so that you are placed in the best ward for your needs. New research in the upcoming INFORMS journal Management Science shows that among patients admitted to the hospital, 19.6% are placed in beds in a ward outside the area of care they require. These patients who are placed off service end up experiencing a 23% longer hospital stay and a higher chance of being readmitted within a month.

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