Steve Levitt

It is a compliment to be called a quitter precisely because we live in a world where so many forces push us to persist far too long at failing endeavors.

It is a compliment to be called a quitter precisely because we live in a world where so many forces push us to persist far too long at failing endeavors.

It is a compliment to be called a quitter precisely because we live in a world where so many forces push us to persist far too long at failing endeavors.

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You know, I actually never, that's one result I don't believe. I just fundamentally don't believe that if you take undergrads and you put them in the role of the prisoner versus the prison guard, it's just, you know, I've never tried it. But I just don't believe that it's real. And I think to get it, you have to manipulate other things. It just doesn't seem right to me that people are like that.

You know, I actually never, that's one result I don't believe. I just fundamentally don't believe that if you take undergrads and you put them in the role of the prisoner versus the prison guard, it's just, you know, I've never tried it. But I just don't believe that it's real. And I think to get it, you have to manipulate other things. It just doesn't seem right to me that people are like that.

You know, I actually never, that's one result I don't believe. I just fundamentally don't believe that if you take undergrads and you put them in the role of the prisoner versus the prison guard, it's just, you know, I've never tried it. But I just don't believe that it's real. And I think to get it, you have to manipulate other things. It just doesn't seem right to me that people are like that.

Now, maybe that's what's so amazing about it is that it really happens. And there was... I don't know if you were with me by the time I was talking to a movie director from the BBC, and he said that he had tried to recreate that for the BBC, and it got so ugly so quickly that he had to cancel the whole thing, and they didn't even do the show. But... I don't know.

Now, maybe that's what's so amazing about it is that it really happens. And there was... I don't know if you were with me by the time I was talking to a movie director from the BBC, and he said that he had tried to recreate that for the BBC, and it got so ugly so quickly that he had to cancel the whole thing, and they didn't even do the show. But... I don't know.

Now, maybe that's what's so amazing about it is that it really happens. And there was... I don't know if you were with me by the time I was talking to a movie director from the BBC, and he said that he had tried to recreate that for the BBC, and it got so ugly so quickly that he had to cancel the whole thing, and they didn't even do the show. But... I don't know.

But wait, got so ugly so quickly connoting that it did happen, yeah? Yeah, he said it was real too. But a lot of times what I've found is that when I try to do experiments as an economist that work great for psychologists, I cannot get them to work. And I really have come to believe that it's because the people in this study are so keen on doing what the researcher wants them to do

But wait, got so ugly so quickly connoting that it did happen, yeah? Yeah, he said it was real too. But a lot of times what I've found is that when I try to do experiments as an economist that work great for psychologists, I cannot get them to work. And I really have come to believe that it's because the people in this study are so keen on doing what the researcher wants them to do

But wait, got so ugly so quickly connoting that it did happen, yeah? Yeah, he said it was real too. But a lot of times what I've found is that when I try to do experiments as an economist that work great for psychologists, I cannot get them to work. And I really have come to believe that it's because the people in this study are so keen on doing what the researcher wants them to do

And they think that the psychologist wants them to behave in one way and they think the economist wants them to behave in a different way. And so it's hard to reproduce some of those psychological findings. So I would love to do the prison study and I'd love to do it in a way that was unbiased.

And they think that the psychologist wants them to behave in one way and they think the economist wants them to behave in a different way. And so it's hard to reproduce some of those psychological findings. So I would love to do the prison study and I'd love to do it in a way that was unbiased.

And they think that the psychologist wants them to behave in one way and they think the economist wants them to behave in a different way. And so it's hard to reproduce some of those psychological findings. So I would love to do the prison study and I'd love to do it in a way that was unbiased.

And I just, that's one thing I would bet a lot of money that things wouldn't turn out the way they did in that old Zimbardo study.

And I just, that's one thing I would bet a lot of money that things wouldn't turn out the way they did in that old Zimbardo study.