Mike DeKay
@mikedekay.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Decision Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, The Ohio State University
It's a shame the county decided not to install a warning system (e.g., sirens) along the Guadalupe River. Here's a 30-yr-old graph showing the benefit of warning time for forceful floods w/ pop. at risk = 1000. Would love an update based on more data.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
July 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's a shame the county decided not to install a warning system (e.g., sirens) along the Guadalupe River. Here's a 30-yr-old graph showing the benefit of warning time for forceful floods w/ pop. at risk = 1000. Would love an update based on more data.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
New PsyArXiv preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Risky-choice framing effects persist when option descriptions are matched in gains and losses and even when the options are completely described.
(Last year's Psych Science results replicated nicely in a larger census-matched sample!)
Risky-choice framing effects persist when option descriptions are matched in gains and losses and even when the options are completely described.
(Last year's Psych Science results replicated nicely in a larger census-matched sample!)
May 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
New PsyArXiv preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps...
Risky-choice framing effects persist when option descriptions are matched in gains and losses and even when the options are completely described.
(Last year's Psych Science results replicated nicely in a larger census-matched sample!)
Risky-choice framing effects persist when option descriptions are matched in gains and losses and even when the options are completely described.
(Last year's Psych Science results replicated nicely in a larger census-matched sample!)
Teaching tidbit for JDM/risk perception: NPR story on a fire in a battery storage facility is a perfect example of Slovic's "signal potential." Link in comment.
“Ultimately, the incident has tremendous potential to derail the industry, not just within California, but across all of North America.”
“Ultimately, the incident has tremendous potential to derail the industry, not just within California, but across all of North America.”
April 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Teaching tidbit for JDM/risk perception: NPR story on a fire in a battery storage facility is a perfect example of Slovic's "signal potential." Link in comment.
“Ultimately, the incident has tremendous potential to derail the industry, not just within California, but across all of North America.”
“Ultimately, the incident has tremendous potential to derail the industry, not just within California, but across all of North America.”
An appeal to anyone conducting a "megastudy": Treat it like a big counterbalanced experiment (as in a "metastudy"; see link to a not-so-new paper), so you don't end up with some of the same problems as meta-analyses, such as having the features of the interventions being correlated and imbalanced.
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect - Michael L. DeKay, Nataliya Rubinchik, Zhaojun Li, Paul De Boeck, 2022
A metastudy is a set of many tiny studies (microstudies) created from a much larger collection of possibilities. Metastudies can yield many of the benefits of t...
journals.sagepub.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
An appeal to anyone conducting a "megastudy": Treat it like a big counterbalanced experiment (as in a "metastudy"; see link to a not-so-new paper), so you don't end up with some of the same problems as meta-analyses, such as having the features of the interventions being correlated and imbalanced.
I'm surprised the X logo has not spouted little clockwise feet to resemble a swastika. Graphic designers, where are you?
'Deeply disturbing': Musk's 'Hitler didn't murder millions' repost draws outrage
Musk's repost, which now appears to be deleted, drew furious reactions from workers and the Anti- Defamation League.
www.usatoday.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm surprised the X logo has not spouted little clockwise feet to resemble a swastika. Graphic designers, where are you?
Our daughter McKenzie (not pictured) is one of the fired Presidential Management Fellows featured in this story. Feel free to share.
DOGE has never been and never will be about efficiency. There is zero chance that firing these talented, dedicated young employees improves government efficiency.
DOGE has never been and never will be about efficiency. There is zero chance that firing these talented, dedicated young employees improves government efficiency.
Young people who aspired to government service dismayed by Trump ending the federal fellows program
Young people who aspired to federal government service are dismayed by President Donald Trump ending a program created to entice highly qualified workers to join the government.
apnews.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Our daughter McKenzie (not pictured) is one of the fired Presidential Management Fellows featured in this story. Feel free to share.
DOGE has never been and never will be about efficiency. There is zero chance that firing these talented, dedicated young employees improves government efficiency.
DOGE has never been and never will be about efficiency. There is zero chance that firing these talented, dedicated young employees improves government efficiency.
Trump/Musk fired our daughter McKenzie. A smart, dedicated servant who has worked for the US Census, the US Embassy in Bolivia, and the US Treasury. Fulbright Scholar, Presidential Management Fellow, and (until today) a probationary IRS economist. She moved to Utah for the job in November. Fuckers.
February 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trump/Musk fired our daughter McKenzie. A smart, dedicated servant who has worked for the US Census, the US Embassy in Bolivia, and the US Treasury. Fulbright Scholar, Presidential Management Fellow, and (until today) a probationary IRS economist. She moved to Utah for the job in November. Fuckers.
Is anyone tallying the number of federal employees fired in each state? It seems potentially useful (if anything is) to be able to tell a Senator that Trump has fired, say, 500 of their constituents. Or that Trump has fired, say, 200 Ohio State graduates.
February 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Is anyone tallying the number of federal employees fired in each state? It seems potentially useful (if anything is) to be able to tell a Senator that Trump has fired, say, 500 of their constituents. Or that Trump has fired, say, 200 Ohio State graduates.
Reposted by Mike DeKay
I agree with most of the points in this article about how to fix the most common problems in consumer research.
bandoftownies.com/blog/2025/1/...
bandoftownies.com/blog/2025/1/...
How to fix the most common problems in consumer research — Band of Townies
Caleb discusses the four problems he sees in the articles he reviews for for consumer research journals and directs readers to the papers that explain how to fix them.
bandoftownies.com
January 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I agree with most of the points in this article about how to fix the most common problems in consumer research.
bandoftownies.com/blog/2025/1/...
bandoftownies.com/blog/2025/1/...
Got that end-of-the-year paper submitted a day early!
Framing Effects in Choices with Somewhat Risky Options [not just certain and all-or-none options], with former undergrad Prachiti Garge. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Expectation-based theories (especially TAX) fared better than categorical accounts.
Framing Effects in Choices with Somewhat Risky Options [not just certain and all-or-none options], with former undergrad Prachiti Garge. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Expectation-based theories (especially TAX) fared better than categorical accounts.
December 31, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Got that end-of-the-year paper submitted a day early!
Framing Effects in Choices with Somewhat Risky Options [not just certain and all-or-none options], with former undergrad Prachiti Garge. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Expectation-based theories (especially TAX) fared better than categorical accounts.
Framing Effects in Choices with Somewhat Risky Options [not just certain and all-or-none options], with former undergrad Prachiti Garge. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Expectation-based theories (especially TAX) fared better than categorical accounts.
Our recent Psych Science results replicated perfectly in a larger census-matched sample. Take that, reviewer 2!
Risky-Choice Framing Effects Result Partly From Mismatched Option Descriptions in Gains and Losses
Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
SJDM poster: sjdm.org/presentation...
Risky-Choice Framing Effects Result Partly From Mismatched Option Descriptions in Gains and Losses
Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
SJDM poster: sjdm.org/presentation...
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Our recent Psych Science results replicated perfectly in a larger census-matched sample. Take that, reviewer 2!
Risky-Choice Framing Effects Result Partly From Mismatched Option Descriptions in Gains and Losses
Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
SJDM poster: sjdm.org/presentation...
Risky-Choice Framing Effects Result Partly From Mismatched Option Descriptions in Gains and Losses
Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
SJDM poster: sjdm.org/presentation...