Fellow BSers,
Welcome to A Load of BS: The Behavioural Science Podcast with me Daniel Ross. Today, my guest once again is Gerald Ashley, a re-formed financial markets man and now BS expert with strong interests in change, risk and decision making.
Indeed, Gerald has written books on the subject, is a regular media contributor and happily is hitting the live speaking circuit again after too long a gap. That story we know.
Today, we're talking about:
Our over connected world and the pressures this brings
Pandemic costs
The BS replication crisis and its party tricks
Unsettling science
And, of course, we end with Gerald's quick fire round
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We pick up today's conversation with another though on the subject of connectivity.
Book recommendations:
Little Book of Banana Skins, by Donough O'Brien
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty, by Gerd Gigerenzer
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys, by Samuel Pepys
Gerald's own books:
Two Speed World: The impact of explosive and gradual change - its effect on you and everything else
The Tangled World: Understanding human connections, networks and complexity
And finally…
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Next week, I'm interviewing Dr Jesse Bering on the science of the afterlife and other evolutionary taboos. So until next time.
Enjoy the show!
Daniel
Gerald Ashley on risk and uncertainty (Part 2)