Given that the monkeys aren’t very smart in the first place, you might assume that any gambling strategy was well beyond their capabilities. In that case, you’d expect them to prefer it when a researc...
El islam impone un ayuno de comida y bebida durante las horas diurnas de todo el mes del Ramadán. La mayoría de las mujeres musulmanas participa, aunque estén embarazadas; al fin y al cabo, no hay que...
Don’t Burn the Food (SDL) In a sample of thirteen African countries between 1999 and 2004, 52 percent of women surveyed say they think that wife-beating is justified if she neglects the children; arou...
But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student’s performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their pa...
Bajo la dirección de List, un grupo de altruistas se había convertido de repente —y con bastante facilidad— en una banda de ladrones.
At least 20 percent of American men born between 1933 and 1942 had their first sexual intercourse with a prostitute.
As we wrote earlier, the law of unintended consequences is among the most potent laws in existence.
Los hijos no deseados suponen un alto índice de criminalidad; por consiguiente, la legalización del aborto supone menos crímenes.
The impulse to investigate can only be set free if you stop pretending to know answers that you don't. Because the incentives to pretend are so strong, this may require some bravery on your part.
The fact is that solving problems is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard one...
The data don’t lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.
But if you want to think like a Freak, you must learn to be a master of incentives—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
As pessoas não são boas ou más. As pessoas são pessoas e, como tal, reagem a incentivos. Quase sempre os indivíduos são manipuláveis - para o bem ou para o mal -, bastando, para tanto, encontrar as al...
1. Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about. 2. Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide. 3. Pay atten...
If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.