Ep. 295: Gerd Gigerenzer & Brian Wansink Interviews with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2014
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
My guests today are Gerd Gigerenzer and Brian Wansink.
Gigerenzer is currently director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy.
Wansink is the John Dyson Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.
The topics are Gigerenzer's book Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions and Wansink's book Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Covel and Gigerenzer discuss the differences between Daniel Kahneman and Gigerenzer's views; heuristics vs. statistics; the notion of medical check-ups, prostate cancer, and the PSA test; taking risks, and instincts vs. expert advice; relative vs. absolute risk; Benjamin Franklin's ledger, heuristics, and romance; intuition, facts, unconscious intelligence, and gut decisions; being risk savvy and ordering in upscale restaurants, why Risk Savvy is an alternative to many other outlooks; the two tools to being risk savvy; the gaze heuristic and athletics; complex problems and simple heuristics.
- Covel and Wansink discuss weight and obesity; our genes and environment as an effect on our health; "doing what skinny people do" and studying buffets; modeling the behavior of slim people; the advantages of chopsticks; the power of the grocery shopper of the household; triggers and tips to avoid unhealthy behavior that happens in restaurants; correlations between where you sit in a restaurant and eating choices; the three types of people in the context of nutrition; the influence of the environment on our eating habits; being slim by design vs. being slim by willpower; pursuing happiness vs. pursuing a purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.9 | Two interviews today. |
| 0:35.2 | First, Gerd Giganrenzer, making his second appearance on my show. |
| 0:40.7 | Gert is a German psychologist. He studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics |
| 0:45.4 | in decision making. Currently, the director for the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition |
| 0:50.5 | at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He's also a director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy. |
| 0:57.5 | That would be the David Harding Center for Risk Literacy. |
| 1:01.5 | Both of these are in Berlin, Germany. |
| 1:04.0 | Gerd has a new book out, which I just happened to randomly see on a shelf in Singapore. |
| 1:09.6 | And I emailed him and I said, hey, Gurd, you got to come on the show again. |
| 1:12.6 | I want to talk about your new book, Risk Savvy. |
| 1:16.0 | My second interview today is with Brian Wonsink. |
| 1:18.8 | He's an American professor in the fields of consumer behavior and nutritional science. |
| 1:23.9 | His first book, a major bestseller, was called Mindless Eating. |
| 1:27.8 | His newest book is called Slim by Design. |
| 1:32.0 | Everyone has to deal with weight issues. |
| 1:35.3 | Everyone has to think about food. |
| 1:38.2 | And Brian has spent a career looking at the data, the science, the science of eating. |
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