🎓 PhD Candidate in Public Policy @Kennedy_School 🔍 JDM & Behavioral Science | Narratives | Evidence Adoption | Polarization
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined August 2011
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*Introducing Reputational Rationality Theory*
Are cognitive biases always irrational?
Excited to share a preprint proposing a theory for when and why observers reward error-prone decision makers. Sometimes, biases can be reputationally rational.
psyarxiv.com/q27sj
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An interdisciplinary outing! Education Policy, Public Policy, and Health Policy PhDs!
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1/ The *last* thing we need right now is more untested speculation about how to fix social media. We have *research* that can help us evaluate @elonmusk’s proposals to transform Twitter, and many of these studies might inspire him to throw some cold water on his plans 🧵
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30 behavioral scientists designed a
54 condition “megastudy” testing different
4-week digital programs to increase the gym visits of
61,293 @24hourfitness members
574 forecasters failed to predict what worked
TODAY our results are out in @Nature
go.nature.com/3IyUDCe
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Very good visualisation of social mobility in different countries. The actual “lands of opportunity” are not always those we expect.
Max Spohn retweeted
Found someone who ignores sunk costs! $150 per concert ticket, $500 for a suite, but won’t see the concert because it requires a $40 test
#BehavioralEconomics
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Max Spohn retweeted
Super proud to share that we’re launching our new company, Menon today 🎉
Menon is an Ed-Tech start-up putting students back in the driver’s seat when it comes to their careers. We work together with start-ups, scale-ups, and big…lnkd.in/eUxcpsPv menonlabs.com
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@ERCEXPO latest piece is under review; @Nature created #preprint on @researchsquare: 'News vacation' 🏖 & 'news binging' 🍲have no impact on DVs tested. W/ @sjifradeleeuw @BernhardClemm @CasAndreu @imxudong. Null effects of news exposure: A causal test researchsquare.com/article/r… 👇
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How does police violence affect public cooperation w/ law enforcement? In a new WP w/ @pankabencsik @jmb112485 @ederenoncourt, we find large declines in crime-reporting after the murder of George Floyd. Across 8 cities, 911 calls per gunshot drop by 50% & total calls by 25%. 1/5
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Answer C: Presenting previous roles in terms of years of work experience instead of chronological dates increased positive callbacks by 14.6%.
bi.team/blogs/can-one-line-o…
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I have a theory that meme stock/coin investors are economic nihilists. They understand that most of what makes stocks/currencies valuable is made up. So pointing out that it's a pyramid scheme isn't going to change any minds. Because to them everything is a pyramid scheme.
Lets talk about how pyramid schemes like #bitcoin have historically exploded and the public damage that happens when they do. (1/) 🧵