Liszt says the original finding of the dare programm in honolulu wasn't fraudulent, and it wasn't meant to mislead. It just turned out to be wrong. The science, any fact, tricked er, and she wasted a lot of time and money. Liszt: "I would bet on false positive"
In a new book called The Voltage Effect, the economist John List — who has already revolutionized how his profession does research — is trying to start a scaling revolution. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, List teaches us how to avoid false positives, how to know whether a given success is due to the chef or the ingredients, and how to practice “optimal quitting.”