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social sciences

also referred to as: social science

3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 21, 2017 by Adam Grant · across every show →

Everything said about social sciences, oldest first

Sep 21, 2017 neutral
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Grant: Social science causal effects are usually reinforcing feedback loops
“For the most part, when we have causal effects in the social sciences, they tend to be feedback loops. It's not that in real life X is just causing Y. It's more that, you know, X is boosting Y a little bit, and then Y reinforces X, and they, you know, they sta…”
Adam Grant Sep 21, 2017 ▶ 1:13:12 #22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
May 25, 2018
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Human decisions are primarily determined by the immediate environment
“One of the big lessons in social science is that we make decisions as the function of the environment that we're in. And if we're in one environment, we make one decision. If we're another one, we make a different decision.”
Dan Ariely May 25, 2018 ▶ 3:38 #33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies
Jan 7, 2020
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Strogatz: Social sciences are harder than physics because subjects react to measurement
“The laws governing inanimate bodies are just a lot simpler and more easily quantified than the laws governing populations or individual people. So, the task of the social sciences is extremely hard. They get to feed back on the system that's measuring them. It…”
Steven Strogatz Jan 7, 2020 ▶ 56:04 #73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities
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