Brian J. Goode

TL;DR: Practical limits to the predictability of life outcomes in some settings are suggested and the value of mass collaborations in the social sciences is illustrated.

TL;DR: The paper devise and execute an iterative abductive analysis process that is driven by the social sciences: behaviors and interactions among groups of human subjects, to understand intra-group cooperation and its effect on fostering collective identity.

TL;DR: A collision avoidance control strategy that solves the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) equation for an agent to quickly take action assuming a worst-case scenario and solves the zero-sum aspects of the control on-line using a fast solution method that operates over partitions in the state space.

TL;DR: The observation that increased team performance in the game, resulting in increased monetary earnings for all players, did not produce a measured increase in collective identity among them, serves as an exemplar of using abductive looping in the social sciences.