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07 February 2009
Twitter Snapshot: Dan Ariely on testing our intuition
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely gave a thought-provoking presentation on human irrationality and intuition in this morning's first session at TED2009. Here are some attendees' reactions via Twitter:
Dan Ariely became intersted in behavioral science while in hospital & thinking abt what hurts more: rip off bandage fast or slow -- brainpicker
Dan Ariely: "A lot of people cheat a little bit regardless of incentive or risk." -- heartnsoul
"Signing an honor code reduced cheating significantly." -- heartnsoul
Dan Ariely shares a lesson from behavioral economics "We have many intuitions in life, and many of those intuitions are wrong." -- brainpicker
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely at #ted gives great talk on cheating/intuition. "Unless we test our intuitions we won't do better" -- HelenWalters
Ariely is killer awesome. He shows the nuances for predictability instead of painting a b&w picture of economics and stats. -- missrogue
Our intuition says that TED really liked Dan. Is Twitter snapshot a viable test?
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