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Past performance is not a predictor of future results
As it says on my About page, “The driver of an accelerating car about to hit a brick wall might well say ‘so far so good’ – but that does not mean that the wall is not there!” — John Dryzek (20… more →
Lack of Environment
Are Movie Audiences Getting Dumber?
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wrote 1 day ago: To answer this question it is important we understand one of the most important concepts in statisti … more →
What's Your Baseline?
wrote 2 days ago: I spoke at an excellent conference recently and was on a panel there with two big-time economists. … more →
The Inefficiency of Emotion: Cognitive bias in action
wrote 2 days ago: It’s time to talk about emotions, but don’t reach for the box of tissues just yet, this … more →
Confirmation Bias - Part 2 - Fake It 'Til You Make It
wrote 5 days ago: Part 1 can be found here. … more →
Food & Wine Thursdays: Confirmation Bias
wrote 6 days ago: Every once in a while I re-subscribe to Wine Spectator for the sole purpose of making sure my United … more →
The truth behind the myth of Eurovision's political voting
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wrote 1 week ago: It’s Eurovision time again, that special time of year when cheese is on the menu all over Euro … more →
Book Review: American Nations
wrote 1 week ago: American Nations. Colin Woodard. Viking Adult. 2011. Softcover. $20. After reading a couple chapters … more →
Tell me if I'm wrong...because I want to be right!!
wrote 1 week ago: “Kori, help!” “I don’t know what to do!” “I’m having a tan … more →
Supporting entrepreneurs through skepticism
wrote 1 week ago: Headline from Progress Magazine. A shorter version of this article appears in the VOL. 20 NO 2 2013 … more →
Will the Philippines prosper if we change its system of government?
wrote 1 week ago: Can a change in system of government really change the development trajectory of an entire nation? P … more →
Overcoming False Stories - PLUS: The Christian Author's Guide to Telling a Lie
wrote 1 week ago: Balance by darktaco on sxc.hu Have you ever caught yourself believing in an idea about yourself that … more →
"It Has a Place"
wrote 1 week ago: It was a situation every kid who plays baseball has dreamed about. With his team trailing last nigh … more →
Being Elvis ...
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The reason there’s so many cancer deaths now is partly because of living in an industrialized … more →
The Problem with Selective Selection
wrote 2 weeks ago: Back in January, Peta Pixel shared a series of photos from Infinity Imagined that compared images of … more →
Connecting the Dots
wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s a consuming question for all Americans: Should the FBI, the CIA, Homeland Security and r … more →
Cognitive Bias & Informal Fallacies
wrote 2 weeks ago: Daniel Kahneman wrote Thinking, Fast and Slow, which is about the psychological research concerning … more →
oxymoron alert: the thinking theist
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wrote 3 weeks ago: In a survey that was conducted by David Bourget and David Chalmers in 2009 (full report out o … more →
Motivated Reasoning
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wrote 3 weeks ago: There is a wide body of research on what has come to be known as “motivated reasoning” and – more re … more →
Free Energy: Criticisms and Conjectures
wrote 3 weeks ago: This posting forms part of the talk ‘Intelligence and the Brain’. Here, I look at some criticisms of … more →
