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prakhargodara.bsky.social

@prakhargodara.bsky.social

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Physics PhD, now exploring questions involving learning and decision-making. Postdoc at NYU. Curious and open to chats.

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prakhargodara.bsky.social @prakhargodara.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Here is the continuation of the conversation for those who are interested. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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prakhargodara.bsky.social @prakhargodara.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Is confirmation bias a real cognitive flaw, or a statistical ghost created by our models? My new PNAS paper shows a startling result: fitting Q-learning models to behavior in bandit tasks detect a bias, even from the behavior of a perfectly rational Bayesian learner.

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