In the public policy world, it's the old dar programme that nancy ragan was really pushing. And essentially she looked into every possible television set in america ind toltens, just say no, say yes to your life when it comes to drugs and alcohol. That was effectively her campaign. Now, in the end, her drug abuse resistance education pro ended up being not very effective because it never had voltage to begin with. It was simply a false positive. What anidea or product that seemed so great, there was no way it was going to fail, and yet it did. If i were to ask you the single best example in the history of the world of
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.”