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409. Farmers’ risk preferences

25 March, 202430 June, 2025 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

Risk perceptions and risk preferences are different. Risk perceptions (covered in PD408) are about how risky someone thinks a particular strategy is. Risk preferences are

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408. Farmers’ risk perceptions

18 March, 202430 June, 2025 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

Some risks can be measured fairly objectively, while for others there is little objective evidence to go on. Either way, what drives farmers’ decisions is

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407. Memorising Pi

13 March, 20247 May, 2024 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

March 14 is Pi day – a celebration of the famous mathematical constant Pi, 3.1415926535 …  Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to

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406. Risk means probability distributions

11 March, 202430 June, 2025 by David Pannell7 Min Reading

In everyday speech, the word “risk” usually refers to the possibility of something bad happening. In the context of a business, like a farm, a

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405. Risk in Australian grain farming

4 March, 202430 June, 2025 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

Earlier in my career, I did a lot of work on risk in Australian agriculture, particularly for grain and sheep farms. Now I’m part of

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404. Vegetation on urban roadside verges

19 February, 202419 February, 2024 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

In a project led by Claire Doll and Curtis Rollins, we explored the preferences of Perth residents for the vegetation (apart from trees) planted on

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