Jim Manzi on the Scientific Method in Business and Government

22/12/2014 1h 10min
Jim Manzi on the Scientific Method in Business and Government

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Episode Synopsis

Jim Manzi is the founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, a software company that enables businesses to design and conduct large-scale experiments, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. In this conversation, Kristol and Manzi discuss how scientific trial-and-error might help us develop better business and policy practices. The two also reflect on the limits of science in politics and offer a modest defense of social science experimentation for policy making.

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