Comment to Special Issues

Abstract

The four articles in this special issue were reviewed from the perspective of a “flexible” Bayesian approach. This approach, while accepting the Bayesian axiomatic system, seeks to make it flexible enough to take psychological factors into consideration when faced with real social problem solving. The comments are given in terms of four viewpoints, namely, (1) assessment of uncertainty by subjective probability, (2) assessment of damage by loss function, (3) integration of uncertainty and loss, and (4) risk communication.