Jim Manzi on the Scientific Method in Business and Government

Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Published on Dec 21, 2014

How controlled experiments might improve business and public policy decisions. Click "Show more" to view all chapters. For more conversations, visit http://www.conversationswithbillkrist...
Chapter 1 (00:15 - 25:59): Origins of the Experimental Method
Chapter 2 (25:59 - 46:31): Experiments for Public Policy
Chapter 3 (46:31 - 58:13): Applied Predictive Technologies
Chapter 4 (58:13 - 1:19:51): Experimentation and Political Life
Jim Manzi is the founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, a software company that enables businesses to design and conduct large-scale experiments, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. In this conversation, Kristol and Manzi discuss how scientific trial-and-error might help us develop better business and policy practices. The two also reflect on the limits of science in politics and offer a modest defense of social science experimentation for policy making.

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