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Do the exercises and show your work
7–14 weeks (8 hrs/week)
Take Psychology and Economics for free and do the problem sets (time preferences, reference points, social preferences, limited attention, nudges). Keep your answers in one public place (a repo, a shared folder or a page) as you go, with your reasoning shown.
Proof required
Link your public folder with the problem sets (time preferences, reference points, social preferences, limited attention, nudges), and show your self-check (14.13: problem sets and exams).
What gets checked
- Models are solved correctly.
- Each model is compared with the standard one.
- Exam answers are marked with the corrections.
Common mistakes
- Answers copied from a key: verifiers read the reasoning.
- Numbers with no working.
- Asking for review before the self-check.
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A public folder with your worked answers to the problem sets (time preferences, reference points, social preferences, limited attention, nudges).
Steps
- Make a public folder or repo for this course.
- Do one chapter or problem set at a time and save it.
- Self-check: Do each problem set and exam under time, then mark yourself against the solutions where the course posts them. Where it does not, rework the numbers in a spreadsheet and check that every total ties out.
- Fix what the self-check shows, and say what you fixed.
- Ask three people who know the topic to check it.
Template
README Course: Psychology and Economics (MIT OpenCourseWare) What is here: Self-check result: The hardest question and why:
What gets sent back
- Answers with no working.
- Self-check not shown.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- Models are solved correctly.
- Each model is compared with the standard one.
- Exam answers are marked with the corrections.
- Pick two answers and check every step.
- Ask about one step; the answer should be clear.
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Run a small choice experiment
1–3 weeks (5–8 hrs/week)
Use what you learned. Make a small experiment with at least 20 real people that tests one behavioural effect (framing, a default or a delay), with the design, the raw results and an honest reading. Put it where verifiers can open it. Use public information, or data you have permission to use; never publish a real person's private details.
Proof required
Link a small experiment with at least 20 real people that tests one behavioural effect (framing, a default or a delay), with the design, the raw results and an honest reading, and a short note on what you decided or changed because of it.
What gets checked
- The 20 or more participants agreed to take part and no names are published.
- The design shows how bias was limited.
- The reading does not claim more than 20 people can show.
Common mistakes
- Invented or unsourced figures.
- A conclusion the evidence does not support.
Powstik Guide
A small experiment with at least 20 real people that tests one behavioural effect (framing, a default or a delay), with the design, the raw results and an honest reading.
Steps
- Write one line: what you will show.
- Gather the real data, people or documents.
- Draft it, then read it cold the next day.
- Ask someone to mark the first claim they doubt.
- Fix it and ask three people to check it.
Template
Title: What this shows: Sources: Method: Result: Limits:
What gets sent back
- Unsourced numbers.
- Not clearly the person's own work.
- Claims more than it shows.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- The 20 or more participants agreed to take part and no names are published.
- The design shows how bias was limited.
- The reading does not claim more than 20 people can show.
- Check that the work is the person's own and the sources are real.
- Ask how a number was found.
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