Today’s Headline of the Day is from a press release issued by the American Full Bladder, Better Decisions? Controlling Your Bladder Decreases Impulsive Choices The press release goes on to say: What should you do when you really, REALLY have to “go”? Make important life decisions, maybe. Controlling your bladder makes you better at controlling […]
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Why companies don’t do experiments
Dan Ariely (who won an Ig Nobel Prize for showing that expensive fake medicine works better than inexpensive fake medicine) explains how corporations sometimes prefer to make decisions: Companies pay amazing amounts of money to get answers from consultants with overdeveloped confidence in their own intuition. Managers rely on focus groups—a dozen people riffing on […]