Our bias toward pessimism - Sunder Katwala on reactions to coronavirus
Never Mind The Bar Charts
English - April 08, 2020 12:16 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts, I talk with Sunder Katwala from the British Future think tank. Along with discussing civil rights in the age of coronavirus and the impact on BAME communities, he raised the important issue of the human bias towards pessimism and its impact on our reactions to the coronavirus crisis.
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Show notes
Sunder on how the Liberal Democrats can improve their diversity.
The University of Leicester study into who has caught Covid-19.
Research into our pessimism bias.
Sunder on Twitter.
British Future.
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John Maynard Keynes by Robert Skidelsky: Amazon / Waterstones.
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