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Kahneman discusses human intuition, decision-making process

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Kahneman discusses human intuition, decision-making process

Elizabeth Paul

Daniel Kahneman gave a lecture on Monday in which he summarized his research on human judgment and decision-making, and he emphasized the ways in which human intuitions depart from logical coherence. Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in 2002 for economics and is a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs in theWilson School. During his lecture, he explained that he became interested in the limitations of human intuition by noticing how his intuitions about statistical sample size in his own researchwere often incorrect.

NEWS | 02/10/2014

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Daily Princetonian Staff

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NEWS | 02/10/2014

Eisgruber ’83 announces ‘strategic planning’ process

Eisgruber ’83 announces ‘strategic planning’ process

Daily Princetonian Staff and Anna Windemuth

University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 unveiled his administration’s strategic planning to satisfy the University’s mission statement, respond to significant global trends and diversify the student body during a meeting for the Council of the Princeton University Community on Monday. In addition to furthering the Arts and Transit Project, international initiatives and diversity research this semester, Eisgruber said that he would continue his listening tour and take a “practical, iterative and flexible” approach to outlining general goals for the next five to 10 years.

NEWS | 02/10/2014

Eisgruber outlines goals to increase opportunities for low-income students

Corinne Lowe

As part of attending a White House conference on increasing college opportunities for low-income students on Jan.

NEWS | 02/10/2014

Eugenides: upholding ‘pact with the reader’ key

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Eugenides: upholding ‘pact with the reader’ key

Jacqueline Gufford

Author and creative writing professor Jeffrey Eugenides participated in an informal discussion Monday on the inspiration behind his stories, his ever-changing writing style and how his works reflect his inner nature as an author.

NEWS | 02/10/2014

53 percent of sophomores participate in Bicker

Ruby Shao

Despite an increase in the number of bickerees, the overall acceptance rate for selective clubs was higher than last year's with 63.7 percent, or 563 of 884 students, accepted.

NEWS | 02/10/2014

News & Notes: Student newspaper's publication rights revoked

Chitra Marti

The Albion Pleiad, Albion College’s student newspaper, has had its publication rights revoked by administrators due toan articlepublished about the death of a student at a nearby university and concerns of content verification. The article, titled “Alma student disappears, found dead,” was initially published on Jan.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

News & Notes: Multiple thefts in the Princeton area

Chitra Marti

A number of thefts and robberies have occurred on Nassau Street and in Palmer Square in the past few weeks, according to press releases from the Princeton Police Department. On Feb.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

Five awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Sheila Sisimit

Three students and two alumni were awarded the 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship.David Abugaber ’14, Isabel Kasdin ’14, Madeline McMahon ’13, Elizabeth Presser ’10 and Simone Sasse ’14 will study at the University of Cambridge. Theywere offered the scholarship via email on Feb.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

Volcker '49 talks American democracy

Volcker '49 talks American democracy

Chitra Marti

Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker ’49 criticized the current state of democracy in America in a Wilson School lecture on Friday. Volcker explained that the topic of the lecture would be “Good Governance,” examining the current state of the United States’ governing bodies and whether or not they are meeting the needs of citizens. “In that context, my speech can be both definitive and exceedingly short,” Volcker said.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

USG launches redesigned website

Lorenzo Quiogue

The USG has recently launched a new design of their official website. USG president Shawon Jackson '15 explained that they decided to redesign the website to make it easier for students to use. “We decided to redesign the website because we wanted to have a sleeker design," Jackson said.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

Terrace most popular sign-in club

Ruby Shao

Terrace Club was the most popular sign-in club for the second year in a row, with over 130 total students signed in.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

Cap most bickered and most selective club for second year in a row

Cap most bickered and most selective club for second year in a row

Ruby Shao

Cap & Gown Club was the most selective and most bickered eating club for the second year in a row after accepting 46 percent of bickerees.Cap accepted 98 of its 213 bickerees this year, including 96 sophomores and two juniors. Around 563 students were accepted into one of the six bicker clubs this year, which is significantly higher than the 515 who were offered membership last year. In total, the bicker clubs received about 884 applications, including cross-bickerees, up from 831 applications last year. Cap president Justin Perez '14 attributed the increase in his club's bickerees to the multi-club Bicker system that was introduced by the Interclub Council last spring.With the new system, students can bicker up to two selective eating clubs and gain membership to the highest ranked club that accepts them. "People probably had the option to bicker two clubs and maybe try Cap out if they wanted to see if they thought it was a place they'd want to be," Perez said."We also had a bunch of sophomore pre-Bicker events that have seen quite a lot of people out as well." Cap has seen a steady increase in the number of bickerees for the past three years, up from 199 in the spring of 2013 and 157 in the spring of 2012. Tower, on the other hand, was the least selective club with a 76.8 percent acceptance rate.

NEWS | 02/09/2014

Liveblog Men's Basketball vs. Columbia

Eddie Owens

Princeton loses 53-52 after leading by 8 at the half

NEWS | 02/07/2014

News & Notes: 111 elite colleges illegally instruct applicants to fill out unnecessary financial aid forms

Daily Princetonian Staff

While dozens of elite colleges have recently been accused of illegally instructing potential applicants to fill out an unnecessary financial aid form, the University is the only Ivy League school not included on the list of offenders, according to The Huffington Post. According to a letter sent out by Rep.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

N&N: Study shows that Facebook users will decline by 2017

Daily Princetonian Staff

Two Princeton Ph.D. students of mechanical and aerospace engineering, John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, submitteda publicationwhose research predicts that Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users by 2017. Cannarella and Spechler conducted their research using an epidemiological model called SIR, which considers the number susceptible to, infected by and recovered from an infectious disease to predict the spread of that disease within a population.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

Reidenberg argues student privacy is lost in data cloud

Jacqueline Gufford

Imagine a middle school student uses the word “terrorism” in an essay, and thisessay’s transcript is stored indefinitely via a third-party vendor.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

Coen '79 talks newest film

Coen '79 talks newest film

Paul Phillips

Film director Ethan Coen ’79 discussed various elements of his latest film as well as his experience in making movies in a dialogue with poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon on Thursday, following a screening of the Coen brothers’ film “Inside Llewyn Davis." “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which opened on Jan.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

Student charged with possession of marijuana, prescription drugs

Lorenzo Quiogue

An undergraduate student was arrested by the University's Department of Public Safety and charged with drug possession on Sunday night. Thomas Fellowes ’14 was arrested by DPS after officers allegedly found marijuana and prescription drugs in his dorm room, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Thursday.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

University dropout’s startup acquired by Facebook

Chitra Marti

Josh Miller, originally a member of the Class of 2012, has sold the start-up he co-founded, called Branch, along with a sister company called Potluck, to Facebook last month for $15 million.

NEWS | 02/06/2014

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