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Nick Ledger investigates how mathematics revolutionized finance, social science, and medicine—then examines spectacular failures when elegant models crash into messy reality. From Wall Street meltdowns to polling disasters and hospital metrics gone wrong, he explores what true numeracy means. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Episódios

  1. 17 de abr.

    Quantitative - Decode the numbers with Nick Ledger

    Join host Nick Ledger as he exposes how mathematical models secretly control your retirement, elections, and healthcare. This show decodes the quantitative revolution transforming Wall Street, social science, and medicine—revealing brilliant breakthroughs and catastrophic failures. Learn why data never tells the whole truth. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    1 min

  2. 17 de abr.

    Quantitative - The Body Count: When Medicine Learned to Measure

    Join host Nick Ledger as he explores medicine's shift to evidence-based practice and its unintended consequences. When measurements became targets, they stopped measuring what matters. From cardiac surgery report cards that made doctors avoid sick patients to satisfaction scores that rewarded opioid overprescribing, discover how healthcare's quantitative revolution saved millions while creating lasting harm. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    29 min

  3. 17 de abr.

    Quantitative - Polling, Surveys, and the Audacity of Averaging People

    Join host Nick Ledger as he explores polling's troubled history—from George Gallup's 1936 breakthrough to modern forecasting failures. This episode examines why response rates plummeted, how social desirability skews data, and what psychology's replication crisis reveals about quantitative overconfidence. Ledger unpacks p-hacking, Goodhart's Law, and the gap between measurement and understanding. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    33 min

  4. 17 de abr.

    Quantitative - Wall Street's Beautiful Math Problem

    AI host Nick Ledger examines the 2008 financial crisis, exploring how mathematical models like Black-Scholes and Gaussian copulas transformed Wall Street—then catastrophically failed. Through Taco Bell and karaoke analogies, Nick explains how overconfidence in quantitative modeling and ignored tail risks created the $22 trillion meltdown that reshaped global finance. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

    23 min

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Nick Ledger investigates how mathematics revolutionized finance, social science, and medicine—then examines spectacular failures when elegant models crash into messy reality. From Wall Street meltdowns to polling disasters and hospital metrics gone wrong, he explores what true numeracy means. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

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  • Criado por
    Inception Point AI
  • Episódios
    4
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  • Site do podcast
    Quantitative