Toby D Pilditch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1296326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toby D Pilditch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toby D |
| FAMILY NAME | Pilditch |
| SIGNATURE | PILDITCH T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1679-7440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The problem of dependency
It is a wide-spread assumption that multiple pieces of evidence, whether they involve measurements or testimony, provide stronger evidential support when they are independent than when they are not. The standard view is that non-independence creates redundancy and leads to over-confidence (see e.g., Soll in Cogn Psychol 38(2):317–346, 1999; Nisbett and Ross in Human inference: strategies and shortcomings of social judgment. Prentice Hall, New Jer…
Modelling Adaptive and Anticipatory Human Decision-Making in Complex Human-Environment Systems
To effectively manage complex human-environment fisheries systems, it is necessary to understand the psychology of fisher agents. While bio-economic models typically provide simple, abstract approaches for human behaviour (e.g. fully informed profit maximisers), fisher agents are of course neither simple nor perfect. Imperfections of learning, memory, and information availability, combined with the diversity of value preferences within population…
Targeting Your Preferences
The use of data to inform and run political campaigning has become an inescapable trend in recent years. In attempting to persuade an electorate, micro-targeted campaigns (MTCs) have been employed to great e ect through the use of tailored messaging and selective targeting. Here we investigate the capacity of MTCs to deal with the diversity of political preferences across an electorate. More precisely, via an Agent-Based Model we simulate various…
Cascades Across Networks Are Sufficient for the Formation of Echo Chambers
Investigating how echo chambers emerge in social networks is increasingly crucial, given their role in facilitating the retention of misinformation, inducing intolerance towards opposing views, and misleading public and political discourse. Previously, the emergence of echo chambers has been attributed to psychological biases and inter-individual di erences, requiring repeated interactions among network-users and rewiring or pruning of social tie…
Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution
A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem of plastic pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau et al. discuss possible solutions and their impacts. Both groups found that substantial reductions in plastic-waste generation can be made in the coming decades with immediate, concerted, and vigorous action, but even in the best case scenario, huge quantities of plastic will still accum…
Strategies for selecting and evaluating information
The rational continued influence of misinformation
Misinformation has become an increasingly topical field of research. Studies on the 'Continued Influence Effect' (CIE) show that misinformation continues to influence reasoning despite subsequent retraction. Current explanatory theories of the CIE tacitly assume continued reliance on misinformation is the consequence of a biased process. In the present work, we show why this perspective may be erroneous. Using a Bayesian formalism, we conceptuali…
Dependencies in evidential reports
False prophets and Cassandra's curse
Cascades Across Networks Are Sufficient for the Formation of Echo Chambers
Investigating how echo chambers emerge in social networks is increasingly crucial, given their role in facilitating the retention of misinformation, inducing intolerance towards opposing views, and misleading public and political discourse. Previously, the emergence of echo chambers has been attributed to psychological biases and inter-individual di erences, requiring repeated interactions among network-users and rewiring or pruning of social tie…
Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution
A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem of plastic pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau et al. discuss possible solutions and their impacts. Both groups found that substantial reductions in plastic-waste generation can be made in the coming decades with immediate, concerted, and vigorous action, but even in the best case scenario, huge quantities of plastic will still accum…
Strategies for selecting and evaluating information
The rational continued influence of misinformation
Misinformation has become an increasingly topical field of research. Studies on the 'Continued Influence Effect' (CIE) show that misinformation continues to influence reasoning despite subsequent retraction. Current explanatory theories of the CIE tacitly assume continued reliance on misinformation is the consequence of a biased process. In the present work, we show why this perspective may be erroneous. Using a Bayesian formalism, we conceptuali…
Dependencies in evidential reports
False prophets and Cassandra's curse
Targeting Your Preferences
The use of data to inform and run political campaigning has become an inescapable trend in recent years. In attempting to persuade an electorate, micro-targeted campaigns (MTCs) have been employed to great e ect through the use of tailored messaging and selective targeting. Here we investigate the capacity of MTCs to deal with the diversity of political preferences across an electorate. More precisely, via an Agent-Based Model we simulate various…
Cascades Across Networks Are Sufficient for the Formation of Echo Chambers
Investigating how echo chambers emerge in social networks is increasingly crucial, given their role in facilitating the retention of misinformation, inducing intolerance towards opposing views, and misleading public and political discourse. Previously, the emergence of echo chambers has been attributed to psychological biases and inter-individual di erences, requiring repeated interactions among network-users and rewiring or pruning of social tie…
Modelling Adaptive and Anticipatory Human Decision-Making in Complex Human-Environment Systems
To effectively manage complex human-environment fisheries systems, it is necessary to understand the psychology of fisher agents. While bio-economic models typically provide simple, abstract approaches for human behaviour (e.g. fully informed profit maximisers), fisher agents are of course neither simple nor perfect. Imperfections of learning, memory, and information availability, combined with the diversity of value preferences within population…
The problem of dependency
It is a wide-spread assumption that multiple pieces of evidence, whether they involve measurements or testimony, provide stronger evidential support when they are independent than when they are not. The standard view is that non-independence creates redundancy and leads to over-confidence (see e.g., Soll in Cogn Psychol 38(2):317–346, 1999; Nisbett and Ross in Human inference: strategies and shortcomings of social judgment. Prentice Hall, New Jer…
Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)