Getting people to agree: A TED experiment

In April Mariano Sigman and I (mostly Mariano) carried out an experiment at TED on how to get people to make better decisions and to agree!  Here is the video and the writeup describing this and other experiments on the topic of how to get people to agree on difficult questions.  An important challenge these days…..

The video:

https://www.ted.com/talks/mariano_sigman_and_dan_ariely_how_can_groups_make_good_decisions?language=en

And the ideas piece:

https://ideas.ted.com/how-can-we-improve-democracy-one-intriguing-idea-set-up-a-jury-system/