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Matt Meister
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Ass. Prof at University of San Francisco
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July 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Past security in an airport is probably the *safest* place to find an unattended bag. We should not let the airport voice tell us otherwise.
June 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Just woke from a coma I entered in 2007. To celebrate, I've started a blog. The first post is about research--specifically, star ratings.
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MattMeister.com - Star ratings are a bad way to compare products (1)
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June 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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UPDATE: We just received word that federal workers are attempting to shut down the stream at the NASA GISS building. Stay tuned as our scientists try to relocate: www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
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May 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Weather and climate research makes a big difference in our lives--day-to-day and big picture. We all benefit from this research, but often do not know how.

Some folks have organized a 100-hour live stream to talk about their research and impact. Tune in!

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Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream
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May 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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In addition to our keynotes, the Weather & Climate Livestream will feature 💯 hours of accessible, 20 minute virtual talks by early career climate scientists and meteorologists eager to share their research with the public!

Tune in tomorrow (5/28), starting at 1 PM EDT: wclivestream.com/watch/
May 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Pierre Poilievre attends Speech From The Throne with face pressed against Senate window
Pierre Poilievre attends Speech From The Throne with face pressed against Senate window
OTTAWA – As King Charles read the Speech From The Throne Conservative Party of Canada leader and not MP Pierre Poilievre was seen outside the Senate with his face pressed against the window. The unemp...
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May 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Our schedule is filling up 🎉, but we're still looking for US-based meteorlogists and climate scientists to speak, especially people who can talk on Sunday June 1st, or any night during the 2-7am ET/11pm-4am PT window between May 28th and June 1st. Learn more here: wclivestream.com/speakers
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May 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Data Colada has submitted a motion for sanction against Francesca Gino and her former lawyer team.

I hope the court rules in their favor. It will be a powerful message that sleuths can expose fake research without fearing legal consequences.

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May 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Who knew that all we had to do to fix sexism was get men to wear pink headphones. Damn.
May 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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“I don’t want foreigners bringing their weird traditions to my country,” says man hiding chocolate eggs to honour dead deity
“I don’t want foreigners bringing their weird traditions to my country,” says man hiding chocolate eggs to honour dead deity
ARBORG, MB – Local man, Edgar Harris, 42,  took time out of his annual Easter holiday traditions today to clarify his stance on Canada’s immigration policy, stating that foreigners are ruining this na...
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April 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Shameless self promotion: I am happy to have learned that my paper (with Nicholas Reinholtz) has been officially accepted at Journal of Consumer Research!

The gist: online ratings are influenced by things consumers do not anticipate or understand.

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<span>Quality Certifications Influence User-Generated Ratings</span><span></span>
<p>Platforms present various certifications to signal the quality of their offerings to <span>prospective consumers. For example, Airbnb.com designates som
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February 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Do any R users know why “sum(vec, na.rm = t)” removes NAs, but “mean(vec, na.rm = t)” does not?
December 5, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Excited that my paper "Ownership, Learning, and Beliefs" with @aleximas.bsky.social and Sam Hartzmark got honorable mention for best JDM paper of 2021 at SJDM 2024.

TLDR: People have more extreme reactions to information owned goods compared with the same information about a nonowned good
November 25, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Power for N, conduct an interim analysis with a liberal correction (e.g., Pocock) at N/3?

Nick Reinholtz and I have a tutorial paper (currently under review at a marketing journal) on running pre-registered sequential analysis.
Reducing Participant Costs Without Sacrificing Statistical Power in Consumer Research: An Introducti...
The difficulty of determining how many observations to collect is a source of inefficiency in consumer behavior research. Collecting too few observations means
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December 12, 2023 at 8:04 PM
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Super excited about this opportunity to present my research (with Bart de Langhe and Phil Fernbach) on the risks of using marketing personas in segmentation analysis!

Join us on Jan 9th at 12PM ET, register here: www.msi.org/events/msi-w...
MSI Webinar: The Pitfalls of Marketing Personas when Analyzing Customer Data - MSI - Marketing Scien...
01/09/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm - Segmentation, the process of dividing up a heterogeneous consumer base into smaller, more homogeneous, segments, is an essential part of marketing strategy. After se...
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December 12, 2023 at 10:13 PM