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Rory Sutherland, the Master of Madfest, on why behavioural science should get awards

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The Importance of Teaching Behavior Science

I think the most important thing to do with behavioral science is to teach it rather than to practice it. Because in economic terms, simply giving people permission to think differently, which behavioral science does, would massively limit the solution set. Most businesses demand evidence from the past to support activity in the future. All big data is inherently biased by dent of deriving from a period of time which no where some of the rules may no longer apply. That's not a problem in physics because the laws of gravity don't change. But the laws of psychology are highly manipulable and they change and fashions change all the time.

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