Associate Professor Tim van Gelder

Director, Hunt Laboratory for Intelligence Research, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

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Sports coaches make these seven kinds of decisions

Understanding the seven decision types sports coaches make – with their strengths and pitfalls – can help us all make better choices

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Sciences & Technology

Another intelligence failure shows we need more rigour

The storming of the Capitol in January followed a serious intelligence failure. A new report on analytical rigour helps explain how to do better

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Sciences & Technology

Mapping our COVID-19 recovery

SWARM technology has brought together the country’s leading experts from Australian universities to work on our recovery after COVID-19

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Crowdsourcing security intelligence

Inspired by how bees make collective decisions, researchers are exploring how crowdsourcing techniques may help intelligence analysts produce the best-reasoned analysis from the available data

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Making big sense of big data: The quest to improve human reasoning

Why the US intelligence community is investing in a global effort to boost analytical thinking by tapping the wisdom of crowds

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