Economist challenges recruiting hyperbole

Science discovery in clinician-economist collaboration: legacy and future challenges.

BACKGROUND 2002 Carl Taube Lecture at the NIMH Mental Health Economics Meeting. AIMS OF THE STUDY To analyze the contribution and process of clinician/economist collaboration. METHODS Personal scientific autobiography, using relationships with three economists as case examples. RESULTS In joint efforts by clinicians and economists, clinicians bring an interest in case examples and in resp...

Challenges in Participant Recruiting For Usability Testing

Effective participant recruiting is crucial to collecting reliable data during usability testing of high-tech products and services. Not only should test participants reflect the characteristics of the targeted users of the product or service, but they also must be likely to use it. Only then will their experiences and opinions yield reliable data for identifying meaningful improvements. This p...

De Economist

We analyze the dynamic behaviour of firms that locally interact through price competition in a social environment in an evolutionary game-theoretic model. These firms update their prices according to the behavioural rule ‘Win Cooperate, Lose Defect’ ~WCLD!, which is often observed in experimental economics. It can be regarded as a generalized Tit-for-Tat strategy. The model can explain the simu...

Adam Smith , Behavioral Economist

The DSM-5: Hyperbole, Hope or Hypothesis?

The furore preceding the release of the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is in contrast to the incremental changes to several diagnostic categories, which are derived from new research since its predecessor's birth in 1990. While many of these changes are indeed controversial, they do reflect the intrinsic ambiguity of the extant literature. Addit...