Is There a New Set of Explanations?

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Jackson: There was not a particularly new set of explanation. But I think that there's two sort of slightly different things which aren't identical but they're related and they come together in some context. One is this sort of Diane Matt's problem that you take these three quite disparate questions about how do you feel about trade of China? And it may be that sort of a term you're putting onto this data is actually misleading about what's really going on.

Over the past decades, many social science studies have promised simple answers to complex problems. In his latest book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, Singal describes how many of these solutions fail because the findings they are based on turn out to be wrong or misleading.

In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jesse Singal sit down to discuss the reproducibility crisis in social science, whether to be skeptical about implicit bias training, and how to differentiate real solutions from illusory quick fixes.

A written transcript of this conversation is available on persuasion.community

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