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Episode 22: Affect, Cognition, and Awareness
Quick post to talk about affect. Affect is primarily a verb meaning make a difference. This is different from effect which essentially means result (the effect of the great pitching was a win). Affective primacy hypothesis asserts that positive and negative affective reactions can be…
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Episode 21: Monkey (Unconsciously) See, Monkey (Unconsciously) Do
Have you ever seen a chameleon? They instantly change color to adapt to whatever their background is. There’s a theory that humans can do this too. Of course, we can’t change our skin color to match our environment but the theory is that if you…
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Episode 20: What is Economics Useful For?
What is economics good for? I think there’s a lot of confusion as to what it can do and what its limitations are. The problem us economists face is that we must always have answers, and they must always be accurate. Anything short of that…
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Episode 19: Subjective Probability (Part 2)
I want to take you back to maybe 6th grade math? Ratios! A ratio just so you remember is for example, the number of shots made by a player in a basketball game, say 9 for 14, or 9/14 (a nice efficient game). But ratios…
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4 Influencers of Corporate Ethics
In this podcast episode we talk about the 4 ways that ethics are influenced inside an organization: The Free Market The Government Corporate Leadership Employees
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Human Factors in Healthcare: An interview with Russ Branaghan
Every day around the world thousands of people receive medical treatment. They, or their health care practitioner are using a medical device: an xray machine, a pacemaker, a medication infusion pump… So how well designed is that medical device? Did a human factors expert work…
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Humans Calculate By Feel on the Human Tech Podcast
In this Human Tech podcast episode we talk about behavioral economics, specifically about the idea that people don’t calculate the value of products and services rationally, but they do so by following how they feel about what something is worth. Guthrie walks us through the…
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East vs. West Design: A conversation with Sydney Anh Mai
In this Human Tech podcast episode we talk with Sydney Anh Mai from Kickstarter about differences in design between the East and the West. Sydney grew up in Vietnam, but then came to school and to work in the US. A Product Designer for Kickstarter,…
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We Overestimate Our Own Knowledge, the latest episode on the Human Tech Podcast
If you ask someone how much they know about a particular topic they tend to overestimate their own knowledge. And we tend to rely on our social network to fill in our knowledge gaps. This illusion about how much we know is the topic of…
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Dean Barker, VP for UX at United Health Group on the Human Tech Podcast
On this episode of Human Tech we talk with Dean Barker who is the VP for User Experience for United Health Group, and is also a long time friend and colleague. We talk about the challenges of finding UX staff, challenges in doing UX work…
