Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; Nancy Santiago Negrón, Lending To The Poor & Simine Vazire, Changing Research Approaches
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Nancy Santiago Negrón is the Chief External Affairs officer at the Opportunity Finance Network--an organization that brings together lending institutions that "benefit low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities across the nation." She shares her vision for OFN along with her work at the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor to improve the well-being of women who serve and have served in the military. And, There's a lot of talk lately about the value of failure. In the tech world, they talk about failing fast, in personal development they talk about embracing failure to build resilience. And in science--at least in school--they tell you what you learned doesn't work is just as important to knowledge as what does. And in order to prove a hypothesis, you have to be able to repeat the same experiment and get the same results. But, according to my guest, psychologist Simine Vazire, in the field of psychology, failure is not an option and replicating an experiment can be considered...rude. Vazire, who is an associate professor of psychology at UC Davis shares why the methods and practices in psychological science need to change--and what she is doing about it.
