Healthcare Triage
Behavioral Economics Aren't that Convincing in Medicine
There have been a lot of stories about using behavioral economics to change wide array of human behaviors. Studies have looked at adherence to treatments, weight control, and lots of other areas, and have found that trying to change...
Curated Video
Market Competition: Understanding Perfect Competition and Monopoly
This video discusses the concept of market competition and how it affects outcomes like prices, efficiency, and outputs. The video then introduces two important forms of market competition: perfect competition and monopoly. The speaker...
Healthcare Triage
Heart Stents, Angina, and the Placebo Effect
Stents are a popular treatment for angina pectoris, or chest pain usually resulting from narrowed arteries. Getting a stent is a serious procedure, with no small risk associated with it. And recent studies indicate that stents don't do...
Curated Video
Understanding Inequality, Poverty, and their Implications
This is an economics lesson on the topics of inequality and poverty. The instructor discusses the political sensitivity of these terms and how they are used interchangeably, but emphasizes the importance of carefully weighing the impact...
Healthcare Triage
Sorority Membership Doesn't Necessarily Lead to Eating Disorders
When I was a medical student, I remember doing a psych rotation on a pediatric ward. I was struck by how many of the admissions were for eating disorders. Even before then, I was aware that more than a small number of my female friends...
Curated Video
Determining the Union of Two Subsets of a Sample Space
In this video, the teacher explains how to determine the union of two subsets of a sample space. The concept of a sample space is introduced as the set of all possible outcomes for an event. The teacher uses examples with dice and...
The Business Professor
Mitigating the Effects of Social Comparison in a Negotiation
This Video Explains Mitigating the Effects of Social Comparison in a Negotiation
Curated Video
Describing the Union of Events
In this video, the teacher explains how to describe the union of two or more events using examples of rolling a die and student activities. The teacher demonstrates two methods - listing the outcomes and using a formula - to determine...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is our biological account of mental illness failing us?
From schizophrenia to depression we assume our psychiatric diagnoses are real. But as the mental health epidemic turns global, the categories now seem like the cause. Is it time to abandon our biological account of mental illness? Or is...
Curated Video
Determining Independence of Events: Comparing Conditional and Simple Probabilities
In this video, the teacher explains how to determine if two events are independent by comparing the conditional probability of one event given the other event to the simple probability of the first event.
Healthcare Triage
Moving Isn't Great for Kids
More than once, I've considered packing up the family and taking a job in a different city. Each time, my wife and I thought about what it might do to them if we moved. But we were just guessing. There are data! This is Healthcare Triage...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why the Dismal Science Cares About Happiness
Economics is often thought of as emotion-less, but University of Southern California economist Daniel Benjamin argues for happiness as a vital indicator. Benjamin discusses how economists measure and understand behavior.
Healthcare Triage
Coffee! It's Not Bad for You, and It might Even be Good!
When I was a kid, my parents refused to let me drink coffee because they believed it would "stunt my growth". It turns out, of course, this is a myth. Studies have failed, again and again, to show that coffee or caffeine consumption are...
Healthcare Triage
Later School Day Starts Make Economic Sense
Last week, we talked about why it's good for students' health to push school start times back to later in the morning. There's also an economic argument for it. Today, Aaron talks about how starting school later benefits the economy in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Valeri Lantz-Gefroh - Teachers Make a Difference - Diane Jones
Valeri Lantz-Gefroh, MFA, is an Associate professor in the School of Journalism where she serves as the Improvisation Program Director in the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. She teaches workshops and graduate courses at Stony...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Troy Campbell - Demonstrate Care First Principle
Troy Campbell is an expert in consumer behavior, marketing social psychology, political psychology, and scientific communication. At the University of Oregon, he is an assistant professor of marketing in the Lundquist College of...
Healthcare Triage
Healthcare Triage Questions #1
This week, Healthcare Triage presents its first questions video! Many of you submitted questions over Twitter, and John and Aaron sat down to answer them. Hilarity sometimes ensues. Make sure you get your question in next time if you...
Brian McLogan
How to find the theoretical probability of choosing a number
👉 Learn how to find the theoretical probability of an event. Probability is the chance of an event occurring or not occurring. The probability of an event is given theoretically by the number of outcomes divided by the total possible...
Healthcare Triage
What Should Future Childhood Programs Look Like?
In 2005, when the RAND Corporation wrote about early childhood interventions, they argued that the evidence to date showed those interventions improved outcomes and generated benefits that outweighed the costs. More than ten years later,...
Coach Dan Blewett
How to Call a Game in Baseball - 1-2 Count Strategies
In this video you'll learn how to create smart pitch sequences, particularly in. 1-2 counts. In a 1-2 count, the strategy is to throw a borderline ball/strike that entices or forces a swing, giving a high probability of weak contact to...
Curated Video
Understanding Decision Trees: Simplifying the Decision-Making Process
The video explains what decision trees are and how they can be used by businesses to simplify and adjust the decision-making process. It discusses the basic framework of decision-making, the net outcome of making a decision, and the...
Healthcare Triage
What We Know about Pot in 2017
Marijuana!You guys always want to know more about pot from Healthcare Triage. It's also one of the most controversial and complex subjects we cover. And it's time for an update on what we know, versus what we think, when it comes to the...
Let's Tute
Probability and Experiment with Balls and Cards
This video explains the concept of probability using two examples, the ball experiment and a deck of cards. It demonstrates how to calculate the probability of a specific outcome and how to ensure that the sum of all probabilities equals...
Healthcare Triage
Someone Give That Baby Peanut Protein! Also, Wearables Alone Don't Lead to Weight Loss.
People aren't paying enough attention! This is Healthcare Triage News.