The game of your life

If you want to play a computer game, but don’t know if you should, we have the game for you: http://quiz.worldofuncertainty.org/.

Queen’s University Belfast has created the prototype of a game that helps us to make decisions when faced with uncertainty: should you run for a train that’s just about to leave? Is it worth reading Backbytes every issue? The game teaches us whether we tend to be overconfident or underconfident in situations like this, and so teaches us to overcome our natural biases. It’s cheaper than the best test of these abilities: online poker.

And, in case you were wondering, the answer to the Backbytes question is “yes”.