Steven Levitt
speaker
124 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2014
last heard Jun 2014
Steven Levitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Here's Tim Harford.
Whether you should get a tattoo or go on a diet or quit your job or break up with your boyfriend, any question you want, it didn't matter.
We flipped a coin.
I'm standing in Holyrood Park and around me a crowd of people are celebrating the 14th anniversary of Scotland's independence.
These have been good times for Scotland.
Immigrants are flocking to the country, employment is up and Scotland's productivity has surged.
the countries in the top five performing countries of the OECD.
More, surely, than at any time in history.
People who are unhappy in their marriage
Are they better off getting divorced or not getting divorced?
Those are the kinds of questions which are of fundamental importance when people actually live their lives.
And so here was the idea, which was completely ridiculous.
Essentially, we put out the word that if you had a big problem that you were trying to solve, you could come and we would help you.
We would help you decide whether you should get a tattoo or go on a diet or quit your job or break up with your boyfriend.
Any question you wanted, it didn't matter.
And we tried to, through the questions we had,
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