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...
From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an average 1,643 fatalities per year. But over the same stretch of ti...
Experts depend on the fact that you don’t have the information they do. Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you wouldn’t know what to do with the information if you...
El enfoque económico no pretende describir el mundo como cualquiera de nosotros quisiera que fuera, o teme que sea, o reza por que llegue a ser, sino más bien explicar lo que hay en la realidad. La ma...
Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.
David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more angles than any other human. In more than twenty-five-hun...
But this is not to say that parents don’t matter. Plainly they matter a great deal. Here is the conundrum: by the time most people pick up a parenting book, it is far too late. Most of the things that...
But running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.
But putting your faith in a coin toss—even for a tiny decision—may at least inoculate you against the belief that quitting is necessarily taboo.
Being confident you are right is not the same as being right.
Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.
Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don’t be afraid of the obvious.
Anecdotes often represent the lowest form of persuasion. A story, meanwhile, fills out the picture. It uses data, statistical or otherwise, to portray a sense of magnitude; without data, we have no id...
And there are few incentives more powerful than the fear of random violence - which, in essence, is why terrorism is so effective.
And it would be startlingly cheap. IV estimates the Save the Arctic plan could be set up in just two years at a cost of roughly $20 million, with an annual operating cost of about $10 million. If cool...
After all, just because you’re at the office is no reason to stop thinking.
As scientists like to say: The plural of anecdote is not data.)
«se podría meter un camión por los agujeros de nuestros protocolos».
«El prestigio parece ejercer una especie de magia que da salud —dice Andrew Oswald, uno de los autores del estudio—. Al parecer, subir a ese estrado de Estocolmo añade unos dos años a la vida de un ci...
Una persona que utiliza un ordenador experimenta una «deriva cognitiva» si pasa más de un segundo entre hacer clic con el ratón y ver nuevos datos en la pantalla. Si pasan diez segundos, la mente de l...