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#147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Problem of False Positives

Social scientists are left trying to find scraps of things that aren't obvious like this, things that people kind of don't know. Daniel Kahneman's findings were not completely unknown before he found them, but he really clarified them. And then he popularized the idea and gave us a terminology. But I still think you're on the right track that because humans are so good at modeling other humans, it's like one of our fundamental like evolutionary drives is like understand other people.

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