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The “Perception of Probability and Correlations in Statistics, Economics and Politics” workshop takes place at Columbia University on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Location Watson Conference Room, 612 West 115th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10027 Download Full Workshop Schedule (pdf) Speakers David Schmeidler: Keynote Speaker https://www.tau.ac.il/~schmeid/D_Schmeidler_publications_2016_Jan.pdf Title: Desirability relations in Savage’s model of decision making. (A joint work with Dov Samet.) Meg Meyer: Invited Talk http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/economics/people/meyer.htm Title: Choosing Joint Distributions: Theory and Application to Information Design Abstract (pdf file) Ronny Razin: Invited Talk https://sites.google.com/view/ronnyrazin/research Title: The Drowning Out of Moderate Voices: A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Combining Forecasts – Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin Abstract: We provide a novel rationale for why extreme forecasts are often more persuasive than moderate ones. We show that when people look for the most likely explanation of the views or opinions they observe, they will adopt an explanation according...

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