Good evening, everybody. I am the executive director of the Ethics Center and in partnership with the Carnegie Council for the ethics and International Relations in the globalization of International Affairs program and advanced searches the Network Australian circuit around the world i would like to welcome you here this evening for what is a very hot topic i think it isnt just the speakers it must be almost 24 hours since ive arrived and see how big an issue but as i mentioned is a vicious thing we are having the conversation on the first of april because of course it is april fools day and the significance of that for me whether it is literature at the job othe jobof the fools alwaysk truth to power. Its to speak truth to power that can reside in the ideas and assumptions and things that can hold us in its way so w place we going to talk about that. We have the longish hash tag, shades of red and blue. There will be books on sale on a corner. Theres two empty chairs and they will ev
Good evening, everybody. I am the executive director of the Ethics Center and in partnership with the Carnegie Council for the ethics and International Relations in the globalization of International Affairs program and advanced searches the Network Australian circuit around the world i would like to welcome you here this evening for what is a very hot topic i think it isnt just the speakers it must be almost 24 hours since ive arrived and see how big an issue but as i mentioned is a vicious thing we are having the conversation on the first of april because of course it is april fools day and the significance of that for me whether it is literature at the job othe jobof the fools alwaysk truth to power. Its to speak truth to power that can reside in the ideas and assumptions and things that can hold us in its way so w place we going to talk about that. We have the longish hash tag, shades of red and blue. There will be books on sale on a corner. Theres two empty chairs and they will ev
The line . I think there is such a thing as the truth. If you believe the world is flat the world does not need you to believe that its round so that is where i started and it is a belief that is enormously eroded in recent times and very strangely theyve done a flip and its crazy stuff from the internet and maybe malicious and put there by russians specifically targeting bernie sanders. Now in the post election, the white house from which all flows it is now in the Mainstream Media. That is a very unstable society. How would you assess the health of the so called main stream media. I believe nothing is true and everything is possible and it is an account of postsoviet russ russia. His account of how the russian government uses information as a Political Tool and its not a 20th Century Soviet Union model of pressing particular views on policy questions or cultural issues. Its much more freeflowing and much more difficult to nail down and you see it is at work at a place like russia tha
Hello, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute, thank you for joining us today. We are going to dive right in to talk about the new book everybody lies. The subtitle for about 15 to 20 minutes after that, we will sit down and have a conversation at Columbia University at 5 30 then we will look at the book but hes produced and have the opportunity to defend himself and then we will take questions from the audience and follow the same procedure. Do you want to go first . Thanks for the introduction and for inviting me to this panel. The book everybody lies is about five years of research ive been doing. So i will describe what it is. For the last 80 years, if you want to know what people want, why people do the things they do and what people are going to do, you have basically one main approach. You ask them if you can talk to the survey said they will go out and ask people questions. And there is a problem in this approach which is people tend to lie to surveys to make t
Of Columbia University and harry and will viciously attack seth and the book he has produced yourself will get the opportunity to defend himself. There we will take some questions from the audience and follow that same procedure. All right. Seth . Thank you dan for the introduction. And for inviting me. And this is a book everybody lies. It is about five years of research i have been doing. So i will describe what it is. And for the last 80 years if you want to know, what people want, why people did the things they do, what people are going to do, you basically one main approach. You asked them. You conduct a randomized survey. So you go out and ask people questions. And there is a main problem with this approach which is that people tend to lie to surveys to make themselves look good. So if you ask people immediately before an election, are you planning to vote . The overwhelming majority of americans in the survey will say sure, i am going to vote in the election. They do not want to