Comments on: On the art of choosing: Sheena Iyengar on TED.com

By: Sean O'Reilly

Sean O'Reilly — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:43:49 +0000

Astonishing. Not one useful word about the morality of choices. This is a very clever presentation and worth listening to but what is not discussed is even more powerful. What you choose and why is what makes you moral or immoral–noble or possibly a coward.
Imagine if someone said that the narrative of a murderer should be considered over the narrative of the victim. Disengaging choice from morality is a form of moral suicide. Translation of narrative is just another excuse to unlink choices from a moral code.

By: Sean O'Reilly

Sean O'Reilly — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:18:11 +0000

Look at all the time and attention spent on figuring out how we choose and what a difference the context makes. Imagine if someone studied two group: masturbators and non-masturbators (or at least those who thought the practice should be avoided) what sort of results would you expect? We will never know because these kinds of questions don’t even enter the brains of most of these so-called scientists.

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By: Gabriela Ehrlich

Gabriela Ehrlich — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:15:17 +0000

This was to me one of the most mind-opening talks. It invited people to look at things from very different perspectives. It has implications not only for the way we choose things in different regions of the world but also why we might aspire to different things depending on our culture, background and upbringing.
Fantastic speaker.

By: Harriett Brand

Harriett Brand — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:25:25 +0000

This woman is clear, articulate, perfectly paced and fantastically interesting. Her experiments make us review assumptions about ourselves and our cultures. I loved this talk.