Nor should failure be considered a total loss.
No fue el control de armas o un fuerte crecimiento económico o las nuevas estrategias policiales lo que finalmente atemperó la ola de crimen en Estados Unidos. Fue, entre otros factores, el hecho de q...
No CEO in the world, therefore, is so delusional as to expect his employees to show up every day and work hard for no money. But there is one gigantic workforce asked to do exactly that. In the United...
Mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student’s performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents,...
Most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’. This doesn’t make them bad people; it just makes them human.
More than 70 percent of the men in his generation have sex before they marry, compared with just 33 percent in the earlier generation.
Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work—whereas economics represents how it actually does work.
Might white voters lie to pollsters, claiming they will vote for the black candidate in order to appear more color-blind than they actually are? Apparently so. In New York City’s 1989 mayoral race bet...
Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get mar...
Los cinturones de seguridad reducen el peligro de muerte hasta en un 70 por ciento;
Kangaroo farts, as fate would have it, don’t contain methane.
Just because you're great at something doesn't mean you're good at everything.
It's easy to let your biases—political, intellectual, or otherwise—color your view of the world. A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confir...
In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline.
If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, you’d be right.
I hope when my kids have kids, there are still books around, and I don’t really care if mine are around, but I hope there are books around because I love the idea of that. I love doing this. I love do...
His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument.
Here is the broader point: whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention. Before spending all your t...
He upended the conventional wisdom on altruism by introducing new elements to a clever lab experiment to make it look a bit more like the real world. If your only option in the lab is to give away som...
Harris argued, albeit gently, that parents are wrong to think they contribute so mightily to their child’s personality. This belief, she wrote, was a cultural myth. Harris argued that the top-down inf...