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The Decision-Maker

The Decision-Maker. Microbe Public Decision-Maker What should the decision-maker do? What do they tend to do? What are the common pitfalls? Why?. What do the models need?. Issues to add More accurate person-person interactions Motivations and resultant behaviors Economics

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The Decision-Maker

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  1. The Decision-Maker • Microbe Public Decision-Maker • What should the decision-maker do? • What do they tend to do? • What are the common pitfalls? Why?

  2. What do the models need? • Issues to add • More accurate person-person interactions • Motivations and resultant behaviors • Economics • Social Stigmata • Loss of Freedoms • Mental Health • Important to distinguish Input/Output

  3. Example • Sensor placement • Positive reading - now what??? • How will the decision-maker respond? • How will public respond to false positive? • How bad will a missed/delayed reading be?

  4. How can we be more effective? • Better communication • Multi-discipline Post-docs • Sabbatical/Mid-career retraining • Modular design of models • Multiple labs

  5. There is an important distinction between social scientists helping modelers improve their models and modelers helping social scientists test their predictions.

  6. Future Meetings • Precise definitions & measurement of social-scientific concepts • Panic • Peer Pressure • Motivation • Behavioral Responses • Economics • Stigmatization

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