The Dangers of Bad Science and Simple Solutions

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Over the past decades, many social science studies have promised simple answers to complex problems. In his latest book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, Singal describes how many of these solutions fail because the findings they are based on turn out to be wrong or misleading. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jesse Singal sit down to discuss the reproducibility crisis in social science, whether to be skeptical about implicit bias training, and how to differentiate real solutions from illusory quick fixes. A written transcript of this conversation is available on persuasion.community Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: goodfightpod@gmail.com Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams and Rebecca Rashid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	It seems like a lot of present-day diversity trainings of all stripes are moving against any concept of universalism.
0:41.0	It seems like they want to view everything through the lens of
0:45.0	racial differences as though that's the only thing that matters and as though they
0:48.7	should always be salient. I view that in light of what we know about human nature and social psychology as just poisonous.
0:56.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:00.0	In 1990, an unlikely candidate presented himself for the presidential elections in Peru.
1:10.5	Alberto Fujimori had been a successful academic, the rector of an important university in Peru, and he ran on a populist ticket, promising to do more for ordinary people in Peru.
1:26.2	Even though he was a Japanese American, he had no Chinese heritage.
1:31.5	He was probably known as Elchino, broadly speaking, the Chinese guy and his
1:37.3	campaign even leaned into that designation. He is a song from his campaign.
1:43.3	That's the Lyle.
1:47.0	That's the fris.
1:51.0	That's the frisement. So that roughly translate to this is the dance, this is the rhythm, this is what encounters the Chinese guy.
2:02.0	A better Fuji more did very bad things to Peru
2:05.0	over the 10 years that he was in charge,
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