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Body & mind 22 min

The Hungry Judges Problem

A famous study proved judges get harsh when hungry. Or did it?

The Israeli judges study became the most cited finding in behavioural economics because it gave scientific shape to something everyone already suspected. That's exactly the kind of result the field should have been most suspicious of. This episode traces how one paper's headline statistic outran its evidence base for over a decade.

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