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Rationally Speaking #209 - Christopher Chabris on "Collective intelligence & the ethics of A/B tests"

Rationally Speaking #209 - Christopher Chabris on "Collective intelligence & the ethics of A/B tests"

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Rationally Speaking #209 - Christopher Chabris on "Collective intelligence & the ethics of A/B tests"

FromRationally Speaking Podcast

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
May 27, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This episode features cognitive psychologist Christopher Chabris discussing his research on "collective intelligence" -- why do some teams perform better than others at a wide variety of tasks? Julia discusses potential objections to the findings and how gender-related publication bias should affect our interpretation of them. In the second half of the episode, Julia and Chris discuss why people get so upset at companies like Facebook and OKCupid for doing experiments on their users, and whether that's fair.
Released:
May 27, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.