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If teachers took over the government with Sharon McMahon

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Is There a Protection Against Adverse Selection?

I worry about something I worry about a lot in our electoral system. I think we have an adverse selection problem. What psychologists call the dark triad of personality, which is narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. And that means we're systematically elevating the wrong people into power. Maybe we would deter some of those people from running.

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