014: Gerald Ashley on risk, replication crisis & pandemic costs

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

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