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Silicon Valley: So you think human behavior is modifiable with interventions.
Social sciences: Oh heck yes.
SV: And your results replicate?
SS: Mostly no, small N and low budgets.
SV: But if they do replicate, you...
SS: Get that next $20k grant.
SV: Brb, going to rule world.
Social sciences: Oh heck yes.
SV: And your results replicate?
SS: Mostly no, small N and low budgets.
SV: But if they do replicate, you...
SS: Get that next $20k grant.
SV: Brb, going to rule world.
Joking but not joking.
To a first approximation: the papers that aren’t a blueprint to a billion dollars probably aren’t true, and the papers which are true probably are a blueprint to a billion dollars.
The two functions of the startup ecosystem:
1) Fund a series of low stakes experiments getting folks not entirely unlike graduate assistants to chisel out a few new facts about the world
2) If those facts are true, throw arbitrarily large sum of money at it worldwide.
1) Fund a series of low stakes experiments getting folks not entirely unlike graduate assistants to chisel out a few new facts about the world
2) If those facts are true, throw arbitrarily large sum of money at it worldwide.
