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The most surprising bit of information I learned during the Prediction X interview with Professor Stuart Firestein is that experiments are conducted at different rates in different fields of scientifi

When I watched David Laibson's interview, there were two main questions in the back of my head that I wish I could ask him. First, it would be if behavioral economic models introduce any layer of co

Last summer, I took Ec 10A and 10B, the introductory economics course taught by Professor David Laibson and like he said we mostly studied rules and theories based on a more deterministic and rational

I particularly resonated with your discussion of creating plans to perform tasks that you are likely to procrastinate. Adding intentionality to performing tasks through an outside accountability sourc

This is a question about the David Laibson Video . The question I would ask was sparked by a quick diversion that the conversation took. He mentioned that the stock market is a combination of many pe

In David Laibson's interview, he mentions the idea of Occam's razor in assessing how likely a theory or explanation is to be correct. I thought it was interesting because our models have a tendency

This is a post for the David Laibson Video . The thing that stood out to me as very interesting is his thoughts about hybridization of the simple Occam’s razor type models with the more complicated m

At the end of the interview, Professor Laibson concludes, with Professor Goodman’s guidance, that Aristotle would have been in favor of the rational choice theory in economics. As a behavioral economi

After watching the interview with Professor David Laibson , I was very interested in the discussion about behavioral economics and its connections to uncertainty and prediction, focusing on human beh

Something I found really interesting during the interview with Professor David Laibson was the idea of present bias. This stood out to me the most because it was something I could really relate to. I

Professor Laibson's suggestion that rational choice theory, behavioral economics, machine learning, and simple theory are all valuable and possible to combine in some way in designing models for and p