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What can TRAITS explain that normal demographics don't? De Marchi: Let me use the flu shot for an example. You'd think that people who had gotten the flu a lot or had a bad flu experience would get the vaccine every year. They didn't. Experience alone had no effect on whether you get the flu shot. But if you factored in whether someone was risk averse (they didn't want the flu again) or altruistic (they cared about infecting other people), then you could predict who would get a flu shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Make Decisions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...hand out literature at the polls. He doesn't like team sports, whereas I'm a baseball coach. We wanted to explore people's decision-making styles. We came up with a model that can predict things that normal demographics can't - whether you got the flu shot, how you feel about gay marriage, your political involvement. We used 30,000 individuals who filled out surveys to predict how people make decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Make Decisions | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...film was mostly shot in Pittsburgh. A little in New York, a little in Massachusetts, a little in Chicago, and a little in Oakland. I’d say 70 percent was in Pittsburgh...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Jennifer M. Taylor | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...Boston College attack proved too much for Harvard to handle in the non-conference match, as the Eagles racked up a 26-4 shot advantage. Despite Crimson junior Katherine Sheeleigh scoring the first goal the Eagles had allowed all season and senior goaltender Lauren Mann making 12 saves, Harvard couldn’t come up with...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eagles Loom Large in Tourney Matchup | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...Recently stated that his home had been shot at and that he had received threatening phone calls. Dobbs said he believed his contentious views made him a target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Departing CNN Anchor Lou Dobbs | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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