Since my task is to critically evaluate the authors’ model, I will do so by asking, If our objective is to understand the connection between price stability and economic growth, would exploration of the kind of model that Sangmok Choi, Bruce D. Smith, and John H. Boyd present in this article be a high priority? My answer is, probably not. In the comments that follow, I lay out reasons for my re...

Deception techniques are Information Warfare strategies commonly used by biological organisms and organisations to gain an advantage during competition. In this paper we examine two related techniques, misperception and self-deception, which we relate to the four canonical Information Warfare strategies and Boyd's OODA loop model.

Karon et al. (1 ) modeled the effects of glucose meter error on insulin dosing errors. They refer to an earlier model that I had pointed out was incomplete (2 ). Although Boyd and Bruns (3 ) agreed with my assessment, the current simulation is, once again, incomplete and the same as the previous simulation. We have reviewed the statistics for glucose meter performance (4 ) and noted that Lawton...

Before the second world war several investigators had demonstrated the possibility of actively immunizing man against tetanus (Ramon and Zoeller, 1927; Jones and Moss, 1937; Marvell and,. Parish, 1940; Wolters and Dehmel, 1940). During the war this method was tested on a large scale, for in the allied armies prophylaxis against tetanus was based almost entirely on active immunization. Reports s...

Henrich and Boyd (2002) were the first to propose a formal model of the role of attraction in cultural evolution. Th ey came to the surprising conclusion that, when both attraction and selection are at work, final outcomes are determined by selection alone. Th is result is based on a determistic view of cultural attraction, different from the probabilistic view introduced in Sperber (1996). We ...