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Katy Milkman on How to Change

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The Problem With Commitment Devices

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Homer and Ulysses tying himself to the mass because he was afraid that when he heard the sirens he would steer the boat toward the rocks. I think pre-registration which means basically putting up a plan in advance of you know these are the hypotheses I have this is what I will test as growing in popularity. We've been pioneering a method we call a mega study where we instead of testing a single insight at one at a time we test say dozens of hypotheses simultaneously on the same outcome over the same time frame. It's hard to understand human beings it's just um and we have an urge to publish I think it's a big problem but as you say we're gonna

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