So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you’ve got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don’t.
Porque no hay nada como la pura fuerza de los números para retirar capas de confusión y contradicción.
La gente no es «buena» ni «mala». Las personas son personas y responden a incentivos. Casi siempre pueden ser manipuladas —para bien o para mal— si se encuentran las palancas adecuadas.
Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.
It is understandable, therefore, that the movement to stop global warming has taken on the feel of a religion. The core belief is that humankind inherited a pristine Eden, has sinned greatly by pollut...
Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them—or, often, deciphering them—is the key to understanding a problem, and how it might be solved.
Human beings, for all our accomplishments, can be fragile animals. Most of us don't take criticism well at all.
How are you supposed to get everyone to pull in the same direction when they are all pulling primarily for themselves?
Goldstein found that on average, the people in his experiment enjoy more expensive wines slightly less.
Failure may be an option but quitting is not.
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Daniel Kahneman has written: [W]e can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
As the behavioral sage Daniel Kahneman has written: [W]e can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
As the Inuits say, Gifts make slaves, as whips make dogs.
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory intoconventional wisdom.
¿son lo seres humanos capaces de actos generosos, desinteresados, incluso heroicos? Desde luego. ¿Son asimismo capaces de actos despiadados de apatía? Desde luego.
¿Doctor? ¿Es usted alguna clase de científico?. Y el doctor decía: Señor, soy toda clase de científico. Y yo saltaba: ¡Sí! ¡Sí! ¡Eso es lo que yo quiero ser! ¡Toda clase de científico!».
It is often possible to elicit the behavior you want through nonfinancial means.
The theme of Smith’s first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. How selfish soever man may be supposed, Smith wrote, there are evidently some principles in his natu...