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  • Quantitative - Decode the numbers with Nick Ledger
    2026/04/17
    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.

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    1 分
  • Quantitative - The Body Count: When Medicine Learned to Measure
    2026/04/17
    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.

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    27 分
  • Quantitative - Polling, Surveys, and the Audacity of Averaging People
    2026/04/17
    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.

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    31 分
  • Quantitative - Wall Street's Beautiful Math Problem
    2026/04/17
    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.

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    21 分