Two behavioral scientists with extensive experience helping organizations and communities apply the insights of their field to real-world challenges -- Crystal Hall of the University of Washington and Mindy Hernandez of the World Resources Institute -- posit that the ways that most applied behavioral science interventions work…
Last year, the Supreme Court heard three cases about the sovereign rights of Native American tribes in the United States — one of which resulted in a major victory for the tribes. But honoring tribal choices has at times produced conflicting claims of individual rights. Join us for a conversation with Audrey Martinez, a…
Tufekci examines how Artificial Good-Enough Intelligence —AI that may not outperform humans or even old technology, but is good enough for broad use because it removes friction and is faster, cheaper and deployable at scale— can fuel major turbulence, and in a hard-to-predict manner.A lot of early predictions about how new tech…
Quizzes are central to contemporary education around the world and of great interest to researchers across the social sciences (in psychology, sociology, political science, health, business, and other fields) who want to assess knowledge levels, to be used as predictors of behavior or opinions (do people who understand health…
