Person
Stuart Sutherland
Psychologist, author of Irrationality
Psychologist and author of Irrationality, referenced (not interviewed) across two episodes. Episode 135 cites his book for two Halo Effect demonstrations — identical exam scripts scoring higher in good handwriting than bad, and an identical essay scoring higher when examiners believed a man wrote it (see Handwriting and Gender-Name Halo Effect Studies) — plus his argument that peer review itself is halo-biased, since journal editors rejected 8 of 9 previously-published papers resubmitted under unknown names (see Peters Ceci Journal Resubmission Halo Study).
Episode 139 cites the book for the lottery-ticket study showing people demand over four times as much for a ticket whose numbers they chose themselves (see Self-Chosen Lottery Ticket Endowment Study).
Cited again in Episode 272 for two Availability Bias (Availability Heuristic) examples: the drop in beach swimming after the film Jaws, despite the higher real risk of dying in the drive to the beach, and a survey where people rated their odds of dying by accident roughly twice their odds of dying by stroke, when the true ratio is reversed (see Sutherland Shark-Attack and Stroke Risk-Misperception Examples).
Discussed in
- Episode 135 — 135-elizabeth-holmes-how-she-deceived-the-world-part-two
- Episode 139 — 139-winston-churchill-lessons-for-modern-day-leaders
- Episode 272 — 272-the-nudge-that-persuaded-aussies-to-stop-speeding (shark/Jaws and stroke-vs-accident examples)