The Behavioral Data Science Podcast

Episode 026: From Hot Take to Testable Question

The Behavioral Data Science Podcast

Show Notes

In each episode of Season 3, we take a claim from a news story, paper, or hot topic, and walk through how a behavioral data scientist would think about it: clarify the question, identify the operant and respondent principles potentially at play, design the data pipelines, choose the models, and turn the resulting insights into data-based behavior-change tools.

In this episode, we take on the claim that "late-night screen time disrupts sleep and leads teens to be more depressed".

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