When you see a statistic reported in the news, like "10% of University of California Berkeley students were homeless this year," how do you evaluate it? You shouldn't blindly accept every statistic you read. But neither should you reject everything that sounds surprising. Tim Harford, economist and author of The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, talks about the heuristics he recommends using, and the mistakes people tend to make.
Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)
Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)
Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)
Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein)
The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)
How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)
"Price gouging" in emergencies
Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?
Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)
Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)
Understanding moral disagreements (Jonathan Haidt)
The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)
What’s wrong with tech companies banning people? (Julian Sanchez)
The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes)
Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor)
The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel)
Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)
Are Boomers to blame for Millennials' struggles?
Rationally Speaking #244 - Stephanie Lepp and Buster Benson on "Seeing other perspectives, with compassion"
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