Is a systematic means of describing how people make decisions and how they change their minds;
Egregious
De todos los servicios realizados por las prostitutas que él estudió, aproximadamente el 3 por ciento eran servicios gratuitos a agentes de policía.
Cuando la pose moral se ve sustituida por una valoración sincera, con frecuencia el resultado es una revelación nueva y sorprendente.
Asimetría de la información, un estado en el que en una transacción una de las partes posee mejor información que otra.
[...]finding a few bad apples out of millions would be difficult. Our odds would improve if we could somehow trick the bad apples into revealing themselves.
Yes, but . . . think about it for a moment. Why did it take so much effort to persuade doctors to do what they have known to do since the age of Semmelweis? Why was it so hard to change their behavior...
Ya estamos completamente acostumbrados a las falsas proclamaciones públicas de los políticos. Pero los votantes también mienten.
Why I Write for Children, he explained the appeal. Children read books, not reviews, he wrote. They don’t give a hoot about the critics. And: When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame...
While one might expect that suicide is highest among people whose lives are the hardest, research by Lester and others suggests the opposite: suicide is more common among people with a higher quality...
When people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.
When bad predictions are unpunished, what incentive is there to stop making them?
When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of glo...
Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation,dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.
What if, for instance, every Briton were also entitled to a free, unlimited, lifetime supply of transportation? That is, what if everyone were allowed to go down to the car dealership whenever they wa...
What does tenure do? It distorts people’s effort so that they face strong incentives early in their career (and presumably work very hard early on as a consequence) and very weak incentives forever af...
Una serie de estudios recientes ha demostrado que el personal de hospital se lava o desinfecta las manos en menos de la mitad de las ocasiones en que deberían hacerlo.
The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
The second lesson to be drawn from Kobayashi’s success has to do with the limits that we accept, or refuse to.
The results of Tetlock’s study were sobering. These most expert of experts—96 percent of them had postgraduate training—thought they knew more than they knew, he says. How accurate were their predicti...