Data scientist Cathy O’Neill talks about working on Wall Street then joining Occupy Wall Street. Full of great insights.
Incentives in academic life create a tension between truth-seeking and professional advancement. Nosek argues that these incentives create a subconscious bias toward making research decisions in favor of novel results that may not be true.
How do we live with uncertainty and make good decisions? Vancouver broadcaster Kathleen Flaherty talks with risk takers, risk managers and risk assessors to find out.
Nick Bostrom on the status quo bias
Giving What We Can president Tony Ord interviewed on Development Drums.
Rutgers Philosophy Professor Branden Fitelson observes the surprising fact that a supermajority of us consistently answer the same sorts of questions incorrectly, and offers an illuminating account of why this might be.
