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Nov 19, 2021 34 min

12. Where Do All the Bad Ideas Go?

from Freakonomics, M.D. Hosted by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Ideas are currency. This couldn't be more true in academia, where it's the job of researchers to think of questions and, hopefully, find answers. Bapu talks with economists Steve Levitt and Emily Oster about how they come up with ideas for studies, why most never make it off the ground, and what should be done with scrapped projects.

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