The finding was that when people had to report the number of miles they had driven after a certain amount of time, that because driving more miles leads to higher insurance rates. The authors of the original paper, including danarieli, who is the one sort of most implicated in thisa, tried to replicate the original studies and failed. And it turns out that there was good reason to think that some of the values of the time two miles were faked.
In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an alienated workforce? What role does philosophy play in maintaining the status quo? Plus, fraudulent data in a famous study about dishonesty and former guest Dan Ariely is under investigation.
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