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494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

Freakonomics Radio

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The Science of Data Generation

We're in the first inning or two of data generation, especially in economics. Benford's law says humans tend to give numbers that are very different then a machine. There are different safeguards that you can set up and i think we will do those as a science. We'll talk about basic income pilot programms after the break.

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