Episode from the podcastRisky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

Motivated Reasoning in the Biden Campaign, Silicon Valley, and Beyond

Released Wednesday, 21st May 2025

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Motivated Reasoning in the Biden Campaign, Silicon Valley, and Beyond

Motivated Reasoning in the Biden Campaign, Silicon Valley, and Beyond

Wednesday, 21st May 2025

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Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. The hosts, Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver, are both journalists who moonlight as high-stakes poker players. On Risky Business, they bring their analytical framework to everything from politics to poker to personal decisions.Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, The Biggest Bluff. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro.Nate is the founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and one of the country’s leading election forecasters. He has over $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings and his forthcoming book, On the Edge, is about gambling and risk.Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.

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