Bent Flyvbjerg  - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

In Making Social Science Matter, this Danish geographer argued for a “phronetic” approach to social science that primarily aims to aid practical reason. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this lead author of Megaprojects and Risk, which found that optimism bias and political pressure make project proposals that fudge numbers more likely to be approved than well-planned ones.

ANSWER: Bent Flyvbjerg (“FLOOB-yair”)

[10e] Flyvbjerg studied urban planning under Martin Wachs (“wacks”), who aimed to increase this measure of the ease of travel in an area. This term describes how easily a service can be used by people with disabilities.

ANSWER: accessibility [or word forms of access]

[10m] Flyvbjerg helped redesign this city’s public transit system with reference class forecasting. Anna and Patrick Geddes’s work in this European city helped found modern urban planning.

ANSWER: Edinburgh [or Dùn Èideann]

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	10.83	96%	13%	0%

Data


Johns Hopkins	Berkeley A	10	0	10
Waterloo	Chicago A	10	10	20
Indiana	Chicago B	10	0	10
Cornell B	Chicago D	10	0	10
Yale B	Claremont Colleges	10	0	10
Columbia A	Purdue	10	0	10
Cornell A	WUSTL A	10	0	10
Georgia Tech	Brown	10	0	10
Northwestern	Iowa State	10	0	10
Maryland	Illinois	10	0	10
McGill	Truman State	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Minnesota B	10	0	10
Toronto A	NYU	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Harvard	10	0	10
Arizona State	Ottawa	10	0	10
Penn	Florida	10	0	10
Rutgers	Columbia B	10	10	20
Chicago C	South Carolina	10	0	10
Stanford	North Carolina A	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Texas	10	10	20
Vanderbilt	Kentucky	0	0	0
Duke	Virginia	10	0	10
WUSTL B	Toronto B	10	0	10
Yale A	Michigan	10	0	10