This study used multiple elicitation question modes and group discussions to value psycho-social considerations associated with public perceptions of health risks. Values for saving 100 statistical lives in six different policy contexts varied by +/- 50%, largely due to psycho-social considerations of choice and control. A "currency effect" was found: value of life differentials were smaller wh...

In Templeton (2010), the Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) algorithm (see, e.g., Pritchard et al., 1999, Beaumont et al., 2002, Marjoram et al., 2003, Ratmann et al., 2009) is criticised on mathematical and logical grounds: “the [Bayesian] inference is mathematically incorrect and formally illogical”. Since those criticisms turn out to be bearing on Bayesian foundations rather than on the ...

Paraconsistent logics are, by definition, inconsistency tolerant: In a paraconsistent logic, inconsistencies need not entail everything. However, there is more than one way a body of information can be inconsistent. In this paper I distinguish contradictions from other inconsistencies, and I show that many different logics are in an important sense, “paraconsistent” in virtue of being inconsist...