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AI Thinks Like Us – Flaws and All: New Study Finds ChatGPT Mirrors Human Decision Biases in Half the Tests
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 1, 2025 – Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says … not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gambler’s) fallacy yet acting inhuman in others (e.g., not suffering from base-rate neglect or sunk cost fallacies).

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In 2025, you can’t have an effective democracy without data literacy
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You are swimming in an ocean of data and don’t even realize it. All around you are invisible amounts of data that would be staggering to try to comprehend. Thousands of smartphones and smart devices are talking to, sending and downloading vast amounts of data, video, audio, words, numbers, images, you name it. Everything from the latest movie on Netflix to someone’s radiology results from a cancer screening.

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Shell Shocked: How Small Eateries Are Dealing With Record Egg Prices
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Mom-and-pop businesses are trying to adapt to the soaring cost of eggs. The owners of four egg-centric restaurants across the country show how they are coping with this threat to their livelihoods.

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MIT PhD on Supply Chain Resiliency in the Face of COVID-19

MIT PhD on Supply Chain Resiliency in the Face of COVID-19

Healthcare Packaging, January 19, 2021

Supply Chain Resiliency in the Face of COVID-19, a short video interview with MIT Doctor David Simchi-Levi.  Healthcare Packaging's Karen Sookne spoke to Simchi-Levi last November at Pack Expo Connects.

The EU-AstraZeneca Vaccine Fight, Explained

The EU-AstraZeneca Vaccine Fight, Explained

Vox, January 29, 2021

A spat between the European Union and the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is threatening to hamper global vaccine efforts, and is raising tensions on the continent as European countries struggle to vaccinate their populations amid the threat of new, more virulent strains of the coronavirus. The EU purchased 400 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which the company made in partnership with Oxford University, in advance of it being approved by EU regulators. But last week, AstraZeneca abruptly announced that due to production issues it would only be able to deliver about 31 million doses to the EU, or about 40 percent of the roughly 80 million doses promised in the first quarter. That, of course, angered EU leaders, who are desperately trying to inoculate their populations.

Vaccine Help Wanted: Road Race Experts, Fast-Food Managers Tapped

Vaccine Help Wanted: Road Race Experts, Fast-Food Managers Tapped

NBC 4 Oklahoma News, January 29, 2021

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are painfully aware that overcoming the scourge is a marathon, not a sprint. Enter Dave McGillivray, who knows a thing or two about endurance events — and logistics. The race director of the Boston Marathon, which is on hold until fall, has been tapped by the state of Massachusetts to run mass vaccination operations at Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park. Idled at his day job by the pandemic, he’s part of an emerging group of event organizers and other unconventional logistics experts who are using their skills to help the nation vaccinate as many people against COVID-19 as possible.

Sheldon Jacobson: TSA Firearm Catch Rate Doubles, But Are Flyers Safe?

Sheldon Jacobson: TSA Firearm Catch Rate Doubles, But Are Flyers Safe?

Trib Live, February 1, 2021

The TSA announced that the rate of firearm detection at airport security checkpoints doubled from 2019 to 2020. At the same time, the number of passengers screened dropped by 500 million. Does this mean that air travelers were safer in 2020, or were there more firearms being carried onto airplanes? The clue to resolve this quandary lies in airport security environments with covid-19 and the profile of passengers who are now flying. In December 2020, the TSA screened over 60% fewer passengers than were screened in December 2019. Airport passenger screening is an intense process of managing the flow of people and items using security technology to detect threats, effectively looking for needles in haystacks.

Op-Ed: Here is the Hidden Cost of NCAA's Pandemic-Driven Extension of Athlete Eligibility

Op-Ed: Here is the Hidden Cost of NCAA's Pandemic-Driven Extension of Athlete Eligibility

Indy Star, January 27, 2021

COVID-19 has impacted every intercollegiate sport this season. For example, over 20 percent of all men’s Division I basketball games have been cancelled or postponed, not including the Ivy League, whose teams shut down their seasons entirely. The NCAA recently announced that March Madness will be held entirely in the state of Indiana. The NCAA has also made several policy changes, including granting one extra year of eligibility to spring-, fall- and winter-sport student-athletes and permitting student-athletes to transfer to another school without sitting out one year. Although such changes appear sympathetic to the needs of student-athletes, they carry with them unintended consequences.

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