Colin Camerer
@cfcamerer
Dad, behavioral and neuroeconomist, sometimes good trouble
This is a shockingly lazy defense by the French keeper. His body moves left to the ball, but decides he won’t make it and just stops. www.foxsports.com/watch/fmc-i6...
Absolute tongue-lashing of the destructive OMB Dir Vought by Rep Pressley. Him: mumbles about Obamacare Her: Why are you speaking to me when I didn’t yield to you?
World Cup Final: Started (NYTimes human opinion yap, these 4 Spain but 1 more + 2 Arg = 5/7 = 71% Spain)……Going (Kalshi prediction markets)
Beautiful football essay by Man City and Spain star Rodrigo www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/rodri-...
A bullseye for the 250th , from the brilliant Virginia Postrel on what makes America special: Ambition, of a certain kind "The young country produced inventors, lawyers, and evangelists but no Napoleon" www.libertyfund.org/250th/americ...
Amazing Massport site for TSA wait times. Refreshes every minute. In a zillion languages, such as Balinese
NEW great progress from @i4replication.bsky.social in automating reproducibility "The Engine executes code, flags numerical mismatches, raises possible implementation issues, and proposes robustness checks, but leaves the substantive judgments to people" www.i4replication.org/blog/the-ai-...
Wtf is @washingtonpost.com doing reporting these “Trump says” whims, day after day, as if they are serious news?
A touching, profound story from Nobel Laureate Bob Aumann about how his 1954 discoveries in "knot theory" became personal again 50 years later. (from his Nobel website bio, which he says he wrote late only bc they threatened to leave it out www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...)
These are not the words of a man (Bilton) who is taking anyone’s advice. A terrible choice
"indistinguishable from magic" files: @caltech.edu brainiac lacross athlete Danielle Yang's team won a 2024 high school Samsung science competition by designing protected hearing aids for sports. magazine.caltech.edu/post/socalte... www.samsung.com/us/solvefort...
Not the kind of message you want to get on sabbatical when your house is empty...a coyote den "moving in"!? fortunately our brilliant volunteer watch commander Heloise-ically says to leave rags soaked in vinegar or ammonia, and make noise.
NEW: PNAS study finds that S Asians are much more likely to be leaders (e.g. CEOs) than E Asians...because of higher assertiveness Ratio of S Asian CEOS to E Asian is 5x www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Caity Weaver is a cross between Hunter Thompson and a Diet-Coke guzzling golden retriever, and among the best magazine writers of all time. She is also savage. If you refuse to describe the best free bread, even anecdotally, aloof lobbying group, she will take her revenge
That time Dead Milkmen drummer Dean Clean, 2nd from the left, got in trouble in 1985 for spray-painting a cow statue. An epic era for me and these rascals. IIRC one of them put a DM sticker on a $.5M Henry Moore statue at Wharton www.facebook.com/thedeadmilkm... sonicgeography.com/2026/05/01/t...
NEW editorial contributed to a ew(ish) outlet for publishing replications, across a wide range of sciences ejournals.uni-muenster.de/replicationr...
an old 2014 JPSP paper has three Figures that are exactly the same. Two are supposed to be different. Fun sad fact: I emailed the current Editor and have not heard back 😱
great news for psychology imo: Many cognitive scientists are coming to see the virtues of math much as we do in economics-- as highly clarifying to create common ground, and ofc also an engine of precision and discovery) From @fierycushman.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
A new book of interviews about rational choice is out, edited by the brillilant philosopher of science Catherine Herfeld (her site is here catherineherfeld.weebly.com). Was thrilled to be included short synopsis res.org.uk/wp-content/u...
WaPo has the 8M people protest story waaaay down the scroll, but at least it's ahead of a dead rodeo clown
Wise piece reviewing 2 divorce memoirs. Feast your eyes on this magnificent book cover chatelaine.com/living/divor...
The paper covers human studies which try to distinguish nature from nurture. A remarkable fact is that girls born with unusual amounts of prenatal androgen* (called CAH), even when socialized as girls, also play with more boy toys. *CAH girls have more hair, deeper voices, and male-pattern baldness
who knew? Files: Nobel Laureate Bob Aumann is Oliver Sacks’s cousin! (Keep in mind Sacks had 17 aunts and uncles— on his mother’s side alone) archive.ph/wnuTb