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 if you are hell-bent on persuading someone, or if your back is truly against the wall, you might as well give it your best shot.
But as incentives go, commissions are tricky. First of all, a 6 percent real-estate commission is typically split between the seller’s agent and the buyer’s. Each agent then kicks back roughly half of...
Between 1995 and 2005, there were on average 60.3 worldwide shark attacks each year, with a high of 79 and a low of 46. There were on average 5.9 fatalities per year, with a high of 11 and a low of 3....
Because poverty is a symptom—of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.
Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don’t be afraid of the obvious.
Anecdotes often represent the lowest form of persuasion.
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 what about the other half of the election truism—that the amount of money spent on campaign finance is obscenely huge? In a typical election period that includes campaigns for the presidency, the...
An opponent who feels his argument is ignored isn’t likely to engage with you at all.
After all, just because you’re at the office is no reason to stop thinking.
A pair of researchers named Kristen Schilt and Matthew Wiswall wanted to systematically examine what happens to the salaries of people who switched gender as adults. It is not quite the experiment we...
«se podría meter un camión por los agujeros de nuestros protocolos».
«Se suele decir que la luz del sol es el mejor de los desinfectantes.»
«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...
The Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not.
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Los datos de voto de El eslabón más débil indican que se discrimina sistemáticamente a dos tipos de concursantes: las personas mayores y los hispanos.