Uninformed Decisions and Missing Networks

Polynomial Interpolation for Predicting Decisions and Recovering Missing Data

In this work we improve the existing tools for the recovery and prediction of human decisions based on multiple factors. We use a latent factor method and obtain the decision-influencing factors from the observed correlations in the statistical information by principal factor identification based on singular value decomposition (SVD). We generalize on widely used linear representations of decis...

Uninformed Hawking radiation

We show in detail that the Parikh-Wilczek tunneling method (PWTM), which was designed for resolving the information loss problem in Hawking radiation (HR) fails whenever the radiation occurs from an isothermal process. The PWTM aims to produce a non-thermal HR which adumbrates the resolution of the problem of unitarity in quantum mechanics (QM), and consequently the entropy (or information) con...

Communication Networks: Knowledge and Decisions

Social networks and vaccination decisions

Successful uninformed bidding

This paper studies multiunit common value auctions with informed and less informed bidders. In these auctions, we show that bidders with less information can bid very aggressively and do surprisingly well. We also show that the degree of aggressiveness and success of bidders with less information is positively related to the number of units for sale. We explain these phenomena in terms of the b...