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We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we’re not going to do better.
Dan Ariely
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Dan Ariely
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 29
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