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False positives are a common cause of scaling failures

False positives arise for many reasons such as bad measurement, wishful thinking or simply because the world is messy and it can be difficult to establish cause and effect.

One reason why we don’t make as big an impact as we should is:

  • We’re not really sure that this is going to ever scale.
  • We are unsure that this is the correct result.

Results should be tested with, for example, Benford’s Law, to see whether the data have been fabricated.

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Economist John List is trying to start a scaling revolution. He discusses avoiding false positives, the cause of a given success and optimal quitting.

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