Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

Maria and Nate’s Guide to GTO Travel

Nov 28, 2024

Discover optimal travel strategies from seasoned travelers. Learn the best times to arrive at airports and how to navigate dining choices. Hear personal anecdotes about their biggest travel missteps. Dive into a scandal in academic psychology and explore issues of trust and integrity in research. Uncover the pitfalls of modern academia and the importance of maintaining ethical standards. Plus, celebrate philanthropic efforts through charitable events while discussing the challenges of targeted advertising in reaching suitable audiences.

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Nate and Maria emphasize the importance of arriving an hour early at the airport and avoiding checked luggage to enhance travel efficiency.

The podcast discusses recent scandals in academic psychology, highlighting the need for integrity and ethical standards in research practices.

Deep dives

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Intro

3min

Navigating Travel Challenges

24min

Navigating Holiday Risks and Academic Integrity

4min

Ethics in Academic Research

7min

Navigating Data Integrity in Journalism and Research

7min

Navigating Academia's Challenges

8min

Season of Giving and Targeted Advertisements

2min

Nate and Maria share their game-theory-optimal travel strategies – the best time to get to the airport, the optimal airport meal, the value of rental car insurance, and more. Also: The biggest travel mistakes they ever made.

Then, Maria breaks down a scandal in academic psychology research – and she and Nate discuss the underlying incentives that have led researchers to make bad decisions.

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