Michael H. Birnbaum

Michael H. Birnbaum is a professor of Psychology and Director of the Decision Research Center at California State University, Fullerton. He has researched widely in psychology but his major focus has been on individual and social judgment and decision making, and the modelling of behavior. Birnbaum has been president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and the Society for Computers in Psychology.[1][2]

Selected publications
  • Birnbaum, M. H. (1998). Measurement, judgment, and decision making. San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Birnbaum, M. H. (2000). Psychological experiments on the internet. San Diego, Calif: Academic Press.
  • Birnbaum, M. H. (2001). Introduction to behavioral research on the Internet. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.
gollark: Okay, rearrange the states so they're square.
gollark: A simple if slightly inaccurate way would be some kind of binary space partitioning thing, where (pretending the US is a perfect square) you just repeatedly divide it in half (alternatingly vertically/horizontally), but stop dividing a particular subregion when population goes below some target number.
gollark: The more complex the algorithm the more people might try and manipulate it. The obvious* solution is to just split up the country by latitude/longitude grid squares.
gollark: The Netherlands will just conquer all of the areas "lost" to rising sea levels.
gollark: (well, energy generally)

References
  1. Birnbaum's page at Fullerton (Accessed Nov 2011)
  2. Society for Computers in Psychology:SCiP Officers (Accessed Nov 2011)


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