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Invisible Failures: With Guests Emily Oster, Sendhil Mullainathan & Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

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How to Identify Successful and Unsuccessful Musicians

The process by which JB Rine narrowed his field of ESP candidates was problematic, and it's a type of reasoning that rears its head in other contexts. For instance, we wanted to test people's ability to identify successful and unsuccessful musical artists. Can you please name five successful bands or musical artists? Queen, Shania Twain, Elvis, Johnny Cash. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and... The killers, the Beatles, the Who, Rolling Stones. Unsuccessful. I don't know any of those on my head.

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