Are You Sure You'll Be Happier?

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There is a lot of work these days, an trying to make people happier. In the uk,. it's a whole in other i wouldn't call it an industry, but it's its sponsored by government. My friend lord layard has started a movement that promotes happiness. There's a great deal of that happening. And i don't know how successful it is because the criterion for evaluation, it's very difficult to conduct evaluations on those things. People who know they've been subjected to intervent s cannot really answer those questions honestly even if they try. So the way to test whether things are successful would be to ask a person's friends, has he become, she become happier?

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You might be surprised by what occupies Daniel Kahneman’s thoughts. “You seem to think that I think of bias all the time,” he tells Tyler. “I really don’t think of bias that much.” These days, noise might be the concept most on Kahneman’s mind. A forthcoming book, coauthored with Cass Sunstein and “a brilliant Frenchman you haven’t heard of” is about how random variability affects our decision-making. And while we’ve spent a lot of time studying how bias causes error in judgment, Kahneman says, we aren’t thinking nearly enough about the problem of noise.

In November, Kahneman joined Tyler for a live conversation about bias, noise and more, including happiness, memory, the replication crisis in psychology, advice to CEOs about improving decision-making, superforecasters, the influence of Freud, working in a second language, the value of intuition, and why he can’t help you win arguments with a spouse.

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Recorded November 12th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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