What Stephan Guyenet thinks about behavioural science

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Obesity researcher with a PhD in neuroscience, formerly at the University of Washington, and author of The Hungry Brain. Writes about the neuroscience of body weight and food reward at stephanguyenet.com.

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1. 30 Aug 2018

   Our readingPeople who explain everything with one big idea are bad at modelling the world, and the media selects for them because they sound confident.

   Their wordsThe work of Philip Tetlock, PhD and others has shown that people who have one big idea to explain everything (“hedgehogs” or ideologues) are very bad at accurately modeling the world, predicting outcomes, and recommending effective actions.

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