Beware conflicts of interest

Format: Postgraduate and professional

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Language/s: 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

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Resource Link: View The Video

Target Audience: 2-6 Peoples' outcomes should be assessed similarly

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Short Description:

In this 5-min videoed TED talk, psychologist Dan Ariely explains how conflicts of interest can bias research.

Key Concepts addressed:

• Choices: making informed choices

Details

In this 5-min videoed TED talk, psychologist Dan Ariely explains how conflicts of interest can bias research. He tells two personal stories that explore scientific conflict of interest: How the pursuit of knowledge and insight can be affected, consciously or not, by short sighted personal goals. When we’re thinking about the big questions, he reminds us, let’s be aware of our all-too-human brains.