May Contain Lies: Stories, Stats, and Bias, with Alex Edmans
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Today on episode number 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, May contain lies, how stories, statistics, and studies exploit our biases, and what we can do about it with Alex Edmonds. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. I'm Bonnie Stahoviak and this is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to improve our productivity approaches so we can have more peace in our lives and be even.
more present for our students. I'm excited to be welcoming to the show Alex Edmonds. He's a professor of finance at London Business School and an expert in the use and misuse of data and evidence. He's given The TED Talk, What to Trust in a Post-Truth World with two million views, spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos and testified in the UK Parliament.
Alex served as managing editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review, and has been interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports. He was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has a BA from Oxford and a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright scholar and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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