Stories vs. Statistics: The Impact of Anecdotal Data on Accounting Decision Making

Friday, May 14th, 2010

James Wainberg , Thomas Kida, James F. Smith March 12, 2010  Download pdf copy Abstract: Prior research in psychology and communications suggests that decision makers are biased by anecdotal data, even in the presence of more informative statistical data. A bias for anecdotal data can ...

“Text Analysis under Time Pressure. Tools for humanitarian and development workers”

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

By Aldo Benini "The purpose of this paper is to add simple productivity tools for text analysis, by publicizing existing ones and by adding one that I created. “Simple” is a relative term. As the diagram in the Summary ...