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Nov 29, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
Gerd Gigerenzer's "ecological rationality" builds on Herbert Simon's "bounded rationality".

Both concepts describe human decision making in a way that challenges the traditional assumptions of "homo economicus".

🧵: Simon observed that real humans face limits on information, time and computational capacity. He called decision making under these constraints "bounded rationality". Image
Feb 7, 2024 12 tweets 4 min read
It appears another academic fraud has ascended the university administrator ranks

University of Nevada Dean of Engineering Erick Jones Image One of his most recent papers (from 2022) is basically nonsensical.

Self-incriminating, the one-page paper is short enough to judge for yourself. Image