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4/30
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Mori Taheripour of the Wharton School spoke about the Washington NFL team’s plan to change its name. "A typical rebranding process includes lots of focus groups, fan engagement and community involvement. If the process is sped up too much, even the largest organizations can miss the kind of nuances that are really important, particularly in this case," she said.
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Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about the spread of misinformation online. "In our hyper-polarized and politicized climate, many folks just inherently mistrust advice or evidence that comes from an opposing political party," she said.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about counteracting health misinformation. “If you don't go into same venue where the misinformation originally spread, then you're not likely to reach audience the audience that heard it originally,” she says.
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PIK Professor Konrad Kording said, “There is a big undercurrent in neuroscience [saying] we should go back to neural networks,” which rely on technology that allows machines to learn from their mistakes.
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Anna Wexler of the Perelman School of Medicine said the FDA is ill prepared to reign in the companies producing wearable brain devices, which record brain activity or stimulate the brain with electric currents in spite of little oversight.
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PIK Professor Philip Tetlock was cited for his “gold standard” performance in a 2015 forecasting contest. Contestants in this year’s contest will have access to all the data on Tetlock’s team’s winning methodology.
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Jonathan D. Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences writes about two significant biotechnology developments in China.
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Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School comments on how “intimate” data, such as opinions, beliefs and moods, are the most valuable data companies can collect.