Spotlight

2021 ◽  
pp. 206-207
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Internal Review ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Internal Review Board

The HUMAN Project was initiated in 2014 by the Kavli Foundation in partnership with New York University’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making. 1 Its goal was to collect vast amounts of data from a representative sample of 10,000 New York City residents in 4,000 households over 20 years. Lacking both internal review board approval and sustainable funding, the HUMAN Project was suspended in 2018. Nonetheless, the ambitious scope of the study and what it revealed about the possibilities for collecting and using data in the digital age are intriguing. It is possible that this type of model could eventually be revived, perhaps with additional privacy protections built in....

The Impact of Customer Loyalty and Restaurant Sanitation Grades on Revisit Intention and the Importance of Narrative Information: The Case of New York Restaurant Sanitation Grading System

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Gyung Kim ◽  
Hyunjoo Yang ◽  
Anna S. Mattila
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
York City ◽  
Letter Grades ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Revisit Intentions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Loyal Customers

New York City launched a restaurant sanitation letter grade system in 2010. We evaluate the impact of customer loyalty on restaurant revisit intentions after exposure to a sanitation grade alone, and after exposure to a sanitation grade plus narrative information about sanitation violations (e.g., presence of rats). We use a 2 (loyalty: high or low) × 4 (sanitation grade: A, B, C, or pending) between-subjects full factorial design to test the hypotheses using data from 547 participants recruited from Amazon MTurk who reside in the New York City area. Our study yields three findings. First, loyal customers exhibit higher intentions to revisit restaurants than non-loyal customers, regardless of sanitation letter grades. Second, the difference in revisit intentions between loyal and non-loyal customers is higher when sanitation grades are poorer. Finally, loyal customers are less sensitive to narrative information about sanitation violations.

2010 Meltdown – Airport Closure Risk Communications in London and NYC

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-110
Author(s):  
Sweta Chakraborty ◽  
Naomi Creutzfeldt-Banda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
City Area ◽  
Risk Communications ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

Saturday, 18 December 2010 was the first of a two day complete closure of all London area airports due to freezing temperatures and approximately five inches of snow. A week later on December 26th, New York City area airports closed in a similar manner from the sixth largest snowstorm in NYC history, blanketing the city approximately twenty inches of snow. Both storms grounded flights for days, and resulted in severe delays long after the snow stopped falling. Both London and NYC area airports produced risk communications to explain the necessity for the closures and delays. This short flash news report examines, in turn, the risk communications presented during the airport closures. A background is provided to understand how the risk perceptions differ between London and NYC publics. Finally, it compares and contrasts the perceptions of the decision making process and outcomes of the closures, which continue to accumulate economic and social impacts.

scholarly journals Do Tourists Tip More Than Local Consumers? Evidence from Taxi Rides in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 281-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir B. Ferreira Neto ◽  
Adam Nowak ◽  
Amanda Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Taxi Service ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Tipping Behavior ◽  
The City

Given the resurgence of cities as consumer centers and the importance of amenities, we revisit the differences in tipping in taxis between tourists and locals in New York City. Taxi service is an endogenous service; however, taxis also contribute to the demand and provision of other amenities. We compare locals and tourists who are theatergoers to control for education and income, as these factors are likely to affect tipping behavior. Using data from the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission on yellow taxis, we identify tourists as those trips leaving from or going to a hotel and theatergoers as trips where the drop-off or pickup is near Broadway within thirty minutes of the beginning or end of a show. We find that tourists and theatergoers tip more than locals and nontheatergoers, and tourists who are theatergoers tip even more. These differences between tourists and locals may affect the allocation of taxis throughout the city and hence the provision of other amenities.

scholarly journals Development of pediatric surgical decision-making guidelines for COVID-19 in a New York City children's hospital

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1427-1430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. DeFazio ◽  
Anastasia Kahan ◽  
Erica M. Fallon ◽  
Cornelia Griggs ◽  
Sandra Kabagambe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Surgical Decision ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
Surgical Decision Making

Structural Equation Model of Customer Satisfaction for the New York City Subway System

2000 ◽  
Vol 1735 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Stuart ◽  
Marc Mednick ◽  
Johanna Bockman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
York City ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Complex Model ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Subway System ◽  
Using Data

A more complex model in content and design than previously applied to the measurement of customer satisfaction within the transportation industry is used in this study. Drawing from the results of previous studies that had a narrower focus, a network of 10 potentially important factors that affect customer satisfaction within the New York City subway system was postulated and tested using data collected from a cross section of adult residents. Results indicate that several factors have a direct influence on satisfaction, whereas others have an effect through intermediary variables. Path coefficients for the posited model are statistically significant, although several factors have notably more impact than others. Using model diagnostics, minor revisions and improvements to the initial model have been made while adhering closely to the principles of the original theory. Future developments are discussed, as is the model’s application for planning and resource allocation.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization and Death in New York City Neighborhoods

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Anna Gu ◽  
Hira Shafeeq ◽  
Ting Chen ◽  
Preety Gadhoke
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Community Intervention ◽  
City Government ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
City Community ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Using Data

Background: A key to an effective Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Community Intervention is to understand populations who are most vulnerable to it. We aimed at evaluating characteristics of New York City communities where rates of confirmed COVID-19 cases were particularly high. Methods: The study outcomes - neighborhood-specific confirmed COVID-19 cases, positive tests, and COVID-19 attributable deaths were calculated using data extracted from the New York City government health website, which were linked to results from Community Health Survey. Distributions of study outcomes across New York City community districts and their associations with neighborhood characteristics were examined using Jonckheere-Terpstra tests. Results: As of May 21, 2010, rates of confirmed cases ranged from 0.8% (Greenwich Village and Soho) to 3.9% (Jackson Heights), and the rates of attributable death from to 0.6‰ (Greenwich Village and Soho) to 4.2‰ (Coney Island). Higher percentages of black, Hispanic and foreign-born populations, lower educational attainment, poverty, lack of health insurance, and suboptimal quality of health care were all factors found to be correlated with increased rates of confirmed COVID-19 cases.  Conclusions: The epidemiology of COVID-19 exhibited great variations among neighborhoods in New York City. Community interventions aimed at COVID-19 prevention and mitigation should place high priorities in areas with large populations of blacks and Hispanics and economically disadvantages areas.

scholarly journals The Sociolinguistic Sampling. Does it Need to be Redefined?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p57
Author(s):  
Francisco García Marcos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
York City ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Social Variation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spanish Populations ◽  
The City ◽  
Representative Samples

The present article analyses a classic in the methodology on the analysis of the social variation of languages: the application of the ratio of 0'0025 % to obtain a representative sample of the population of a speaking community. This ratio, established empirically by Labov in 1966 for New York City, nevertheless presents important limitations when moving to communities with smaller populations. Replicating the empirical experimentation in four Spanish populations of different demographic size, it is shown that the empirically representative samples correspond to the confidence intervals already provided by the general statistics. Likewise, it is shown that these were the parameters between which 0,0025 % in the city of New York was developed. Consequently, the problem was not in the formulation of the ratio by Labov (1966), but in the subsequent indiscriminate application that has been made of it.

The Rollout of Computer Science Education to Every Student in New York City: A Socio-Contextual Social Network Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Nathan Holbert ◽  
Betsy Disalvo ◽  
Matthew Berland
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Curricular Reform ◽  
Course Of Study

Background CS4All is an $81 million private-public investment aimed at creating the necessary infrastructure to provide computer science experiences to all New York City public-school students by 2025. Purpose In this paper, we examine the history of the CS4All initiative and document the network of actors and their relationships in the system such that we can understand how this reform is enacted, how it might be reactive to external contexts and pressures, and how the structure and pathways of this particular social network might inform similar efforts elsewhere. Research Design To structure our analysis of CS4All, we first examine the most recent historic example of a large-scale curricular reform—Man: A Course of Study (MACOS). By reflecting on the network structure of CS4All in light of the design, enactment, and eventual failure of MACOS, we can identify potential pain points and opportunities in CS4All's 10-year effort. We conducted interviews with core members of the CS4All initiative and examined available public records to construct and analyze a social network of key CS4All stakeholders, other actors, processes, and institutions. Conclusions In our analysis of the CS4All social network, we document how well-connected individuals simultaneously mobilized government resources and grassroots enthusiasm to create the conditions necessary for the initiation of this massive curricular reform effort, and describe the current pathways in place for decision making and resource distribution. Comparing the history and structure of the CS4All initiative to Man: A Course of Study —a failed nationwide curricular reform in the 1960s—we find that CS4All's centralized decision-making process and failure to create and distribute high quality formative assessment tools may lead to challenges to adoption. However, explicit efforts to solicit input from and communicate initiative values to the large diversity of stakeholders throughout NYC, as well as the innovation of a decentralized “buffet-style” curricular approach, may put CS4All on more sure footing.

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