Author
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- Tobias Thomas
(Technical University of Darmstadt
Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence)
- Dominik Straub
(Technical University of Darmstadt)
- Fabian Tatai
(Technical University of Darmstadt)
- Megan Shene
(Technical University of Darmstadt)
- Tümer Tosik
(Technical University of Darmstadt)
- Kristian Kersting
(Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence
Technical University of Darmstadt)
- Constantin A. Rothkopf
(Technical University of Darmstadt
Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Abstract
Normative and descriptive models have long vied to explain and predict human risky choices, such as those between goods or gambles. A recent study reported the discovery of a new, more accurate model of human decision-making by training neural networks on a new online large-scale dataset, choices13k. Here we systematically analyse the relationships between several models and datasets using machine-learning methods and find evidence for dataset bias. Because participants’ choices in stochastically dominated gambles were consistently skewed towards equipreference in the choices13k dataset, we hypothesized that this reflected increased decision noise. Indeed, a probabilistic generative model adding structured decision noise to a neural network trained on data from a laboratory study transferred best, that is, outperformed all models apart from those trained on choices13k. We conclude that a careful combination of theory and data analysis is still required to understand the complex interactions of machine-learning models and data of human risky choices.
Suggested Citation
Tobias Thomas & Dominik Straub & Fabian Tatai & Megan Shene & Tümer Tosik & Kristian Kersting & Constantin A. Rothkopf, 2024.
"Modelling dataset bias in machine-learned theories of economic decision-making,"
Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 8(4), pages 679-691, April.
Handle:
RePEc:nat:nathum:v:8:y:2024:i:4:d:10.1038_s41562-023-01784-6
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01784-6
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