Believing in what you desire to be true and then seeking evidence to justify it doesn’t seem to be the best approach to everyday decisions.
Chemicals were easier to procure than friends, and when I wanted to play with them they never said they had to stay home to wash their hair or, less politely, that they didn’t associate with weirdos.
Em vez de convencer as pessoas, os dados apenas polarizaram o grupo. Assim, até mesmo padrões aleatórios podem ser interpretados como evidências convincentes quando se relacionam a noções preconcebida...
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.
Let all the disciples of Aristotle…, he would write, recognize that experiment is the true master who must be followed in Physics.6
Modeling himself after Newton, Quételet desired to create a new social physics describing the laws of human behavior. In Quételet’s analogy, just as an object, if undisturbed, continues in its state o...
The answer lies in a phenomenon called regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinar...
The eye that sees is not a mere physical organ but a means of perception conditioned by the tradition in which its possessor has been reared. —RUTH BENEDICT
The lesson is that, though we expect our best thinking time to be when we are fresh, our elastic thinking capacity may be highest when we feel burnt out. That’s good to know when scheduling your tasks...
The modern concept of the unconscious, based on such studies and measurements, is often called the new unconscious, to distinguish it from the idea of the unconscious that was popularized by a neurolo...
The normal distribution describes the manner in which many phenomena vary around a central value that represents their most probable outcome;
The participants gave higher ratings to the studies that confirmed their initial point of view even when the studies on both sides had supposedly been carried out by the same method. And in the end, t...
The study showed that a combination of the nutritional supplements glucosamine and chondroitin is no more effective in relieving arthritis pain than a placebo. Still, one eminent doctor had a hard tim...
To gain a true understanding of human experience, we must understand both our conscious and our unconscious selves, and how they interact. Our subliminal brain is invisible to us, yet it influences ou...
Unfortunately, in 1861, when he was forty, Buckle caught typhus while traveling in Damascus. Offered the services of a local physician, he refused because the man was French, and so he died.
Upon learning of the young man’s interest in a physics book, Lindemann, a number theorist, abruptly ended the interview, saying, In that case you are completely lost to mathematics.
Claiming publicly that comets follow natural law and not God’s whim was a gutsy thing to do, especially given that the prior year—almost fifty years after Galileo’s condemnation—the professor of mathe...
First no one knew exactly how to interpret,
In 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down.
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