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CrowdScienceDo multiple choice questions make us biased?CrowdScience listener Griffith in Ghana, isn’t JUST a CrowdScience listener. He’s also a listener to our sister show on the World Service, Unexpected Elements. But he’s noticed something funny. In the weekly Unexpected Elements multiple-choice quiz, the answer is almost NEVER ‘a’. It’s nearly always ‘b’, or ‘c’. Why is this? When we set the quiz, why are we so reluctant to choose option ‘a’? His question leads presenter Alex Lathbridge on a journey into the murky depths of our brain, where he discovers the cognitive biases which so often trip us u...
2026-02-0629 min
Deans Counsel43: Rachel Croson (Minnesota) with Insights from a Successful ProvostOn this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T.A. Croson, the chief academic officer of the University of Minnesota multi-campus system and provost for the Twin Cities campus, with overarching responsibility for fostering the academic excellence of the educational and research missions of the University and providing leadership for undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.Rachel's path to Minnesota provided her with a raft of unique and broad experiences, including serving as Dean of Business at Texas-Arlington and Social Sciences at Michigan...
2024-08-0232 min