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12 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
“I think we’re — relative to the average person, even the average academic — I think we’re pretty good at mathematical thinking.”
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- Tim Harford
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- 12 Feb 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What else do you think economists are, on average, quite good at, you yourself being an economist? I think we’re — relative to the average person, even the average academic — I think we’re pretty good at mathematical thinking. I think we’re pretty good at stripping away unnecessary complexities. Obviously, the mathematicians are better, right? Are they? They work in such complicated mathematics.…
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