Bryan Caplan is one of the world’s most distinctive voices in behavioral economics. A professor at George Mason University and author of best-selling works including The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and The Case Against Education, Caplan studies how real people systematically deviate from rational models. His theory of “rational irrationality” — the idea that bias itself can be self-rewarding — reshaped how economists think about public choice and human decision-making.

At SportsPredict.com, Caplan’s insights inform everything from user-interface design to leaderboard mechanics. He helps ensure the system rewards calibrated confidence and accuracy, not overconfidence or luck. His involvement anchors SP.com’s claim that predictive skill is measurable, improvable, and teachable — a genuine domain of human intelligence, not mere gambling.

Beyond research, Caplan’s popular writing and contrarian clarity make him an ideal ambassador for SP.com’s intellectually serious mission: turning prediction into the next great global mind sport.

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