Michael Smithson

Michael Smithson, Professor Emeritus, The Australian National University Michael Smithson is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine and Psychology at The Australian National University. He has contributed to research and theory on judgment and decision-making under uncertainty and ignorance and was one of the first to write about ignorance as a social construct. He also has developed novel statistical techniques, including new families of probability distributions, and pioneered applications of fuzzy set theory to the human sciences. His publications include seven books, two edited collections, and more than 200 refereed journal articles and book chapters.