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Dan Ariely on Education and Irrationality

‪The Agenda with Steve Paikin turns a lens to the education system. Would a clearer understanding of human behavior improve our approach to education?
Originally Published at The Agenda. July 13, 2011

Dan Ariely challenges readers’ assumptions about making decisions based on rational thought. Ariely explains, “My goal…is to help you fundamentally rethink what makes you and the people around you tick. I hope to lead you there by presenting a wide range of scientific experiments, findings, and anecdotes that are in many cases quite amusing. Once you see how systematic certain mistakes are–how we repeat them again and again–I think you will begin to learn how to avoid some of them.”