Peter Wakker

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1) Who are you, and what do you do?

I am the grandson of
http://people.few.eur.nl/wakker/miscella/private/myphotos/myfamily/myroots.jpg

I will convert all of mankind, including all statisticians, to Bayesianism.
I will introduce the idea of conservation of influence.

2) What do you consider your most important research tool(s) on your computer?  Delete-key.

3) What do you consider your most important research tool(s) outside of your computer?
Paper-shredder.

4)  What is your favorite tip for getting writing done?
Do not force yourself to write; it will not work.
Only forbid yourself to do anything other than writing.

Peter’s CV

The best paper that I ever co-authored was
Abdellaoui, Mohammed & Peter P. Wakker (2005). The Likelihood Method for Decision under Uncertainty. Theory and Decision, 58, 3–76.

It is also my least-cited paper. Explanation (to console myself): In those days the journal printed half per page what other journals did.  In another journal the paper would have taken 37 pages not 74.  No-one prints 74 pages for one paper.

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