
Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
Very Bad Wizards
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The Science of Studying Tennis
A group of economists proposed a model for football on the assumption that each player was totally independent of any other. The committee unanimously rejected this proposal, supported in this decision by unanimously negative reviews from tennis researchers. And so he's pointing out these very sciency ways in which you could imagine an alien trying to understand human behavior. So sort of making fun of all the formal models in in classical economics. These are just formal models that make these assumptions that are just clearly not true.
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