No bad thing

Regulation is no bad thing.

No such thing as a bad day.

This is an excerpt from Hamilton Jordan's book No Such Thing as a Bad Day reprinted with permission.

Is Guilt by Association a Bad Thing?

In this paper we study a classification model that mimics guilt by association. We consider a population consisting of known adversaries, covert adversaries, and benign individuals. In our model we associate a suspicion score with each individual. The scores for the covert and benign populations are initially set to 0, while the known adversaries have a fixed score of 1. The scores change dynam...

The Bayesian boom: good thing or bad?

A series of high-profile critiques of Bayesian models of cognition have recently sparked controversy. These critiques question the contribution of rational, normative considerations in the study of cognition. The present article takes central claims from these critiques and evaluates them in light of specific models. Closer consideration of actual examples of Bayesian treatments of different co...

There's No Such Thing as Best Practice