Steve Levitt

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.

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.

So people won't believe me. I've never heard those quotes. I didn't know anyone else thought that way. What I said before was just my intuition that that is not human behavior, what got revealed in those studies.

So people won't believe me. I've never heard those quotes. I didn't know anyone else thought that way. What I said before was just my intuition that that is not human behavior, what got revealed in those studies.

So people won't believe me. I've never heard those quotes. I didn't know anyone else thought that way. What I said before was just my intuition that that is not human behavior, what got revealed in those studies.

When I teach my class on the economics of crime to the undergraduates at the UFC, one of the points I stress over and over is that the puzzle is not why is there so much crime? The puzzle is just the opposite. Why is there so little crime? Why does the average person who has literally hundreds of chances to commit crimes in a day and not take advantage of those, right?

When I teach my class on the economics of crime to the undergraduates at the UFC, one of the points I stress over and over is that the puzzle is not why is there so much crime? The puzzle is just the opposite. Why is there so little crime? Why does the average person who has literally hundreds of chances to commit crimes in a day and not take advantage of those, right?

When I teach my class on the economics of crime to the undergraduates at the UFC, one of the points I stress over and over is that the puzzle is not why is there so much crime? The puzzle is just the opposite. Why is there so little crime? Why does the average person who has literally hundreds of chances to commit crimes in a day and not take advantage of those, right?

Every time you walk past a five-year-old on the street, on the playground, you could bonk them over the head with no repercussions and run off, or you could steal candy. That's a real high-stakes crimes you're talking about, beating up children and stealing candy. But nobody does them, and you don't worry about people doing them.

Every time you walk past a five-year-old on the street, on the playground, you could bonk them over the head with no repercussions and run off, or you could steal candy. That's a real high-stakes crimes you're talking about, beating up children and stealing candy. But nobody does them, and you don't worry about people doing them.

Every time you walk past a five-year-old on the street, on the playground, you could bonk them over the head with no repercussions and run off, or you could steal candy. That's a real high-stakes crimes you're talking about, beating up children and stealing candy. But nobody does them, and you don't worry about people doing them.

And even when there are, I mean, I'll be in a big room lecturing, and I'll leave my cell phone and my backpack that has my computer in it. If I lost a computer, I would be beside myself. But I'll have complete faith that no one is going to steal it. And it's really not ultimately because they think they'll be caught. I think that one of the greatest powers of society is,