Ep. 55: Bryan Caplan on Breaking Bad Laws, Voters as Mad Scientists and the (Anti-)Politics of Overcoming Regulatory Gridlock
Stranded Technologies Podcast
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Recency Bias in Politics
I generally wanted to ask you about recency bias. Can you talk a bit about that and how it influences politics? Yeah, more often called myopia and the literature but it comes in but I sort of myopia in time specifically. This is why it is so ridiculous that standardized tests, services, now generally let you use your very highest test. Back when I was a student, they took an average,. As it is now, they're basically encouraging people to throw the dice as many times as they can in order to get a high score by luck.
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