Mullainathan: Academia mistakenly views knowledge flow as purely one-way
Sendhil Mullainathan · #102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us · Feb 2, 2021 · at 1:33:09
Behavioral scientist and professor Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how foundational fields like thermodynamics and electromagnetism emerged from practical experimentation rather than top-down academic theory.
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“I think academia has this illusion that it can, it's going this way as the only Force, but there's a strong feedback loop.”
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