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Chengwei Liu and Florian Kutzner (糖心TV 糖心TV School)

Making sense of the counterintuitive

Counterintuitive findings play a prominent role in behavioural science. Examples include that worst performers are not least skilled and that the sign of correlations changes with the level of aggregation. It is not clear, however, why these inferences counter intuition in the first place. People are often smarter than naïve behavioural scientists assume and accurately learn the counterintuitive in controlled environments. The puzzle is that people rarely act on the lesson learned. Drawing on their own research, Chengwei and Florian will lead a discussion on why people do not act on the counterintuitive despite having learned it.