Ellen Peters on Numeracy

Ellen Peters on Numeracy

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Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it's so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker explains in this Social Science Bites podcast, common knowledge underlies things like paper money, governance, and even coral reefs. ...  عرض المزيد

Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy

A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that -- at least in the India of that moment -- elections were sacred. This was not a religious epiphany but a cultural one; at the center was not a figure, relig ...  عرض المزيد

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Why numeracy counts in everyday life, with Ellen Peters, PhD
Speaking of Psychology

From deciding whether to buy a house to weighing the risks and benefits of taking a new medication, many important life decisions hinge on understanding numbers, statistics and probability. Ellen Peters, PhD, author of “Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Number ...  عرض المزيد

439. Behavioral Science at Scale: William Mailer on Banking Innovations
The Brainy Business | Understanding the Psychology of Why People Buy | Behavioral Economics

In episode 439 of The Brainy Business podcast, Melina Palmer welcomes William Mailer, Chief Behavioral Scientist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to discuss the intersection of behavioral science and financial well-being. William, who leads the bank's Behavioral Sc ...

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Why am I bad at maths?
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When CrowdScience listener Israel from Papua New Guinea received a bad grade on a maths test in third grade, he looked around the class and realised that almost all the other students had received a better result. Since then, he has always wondered: why are some people better at ...  عرض المزيد

46. Human Behaviour with Dame Theresa Marteau
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Theresa Marteau is a British health psychologist, professor, and director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge. Her initial research concerned communicating risk information and found out that people usually don’t change their behaviours des ...

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