But his graduate advisor, the eminent poverty scholar William Julius Wilson, promptly sent Venkatesh into the field. His assignment: to visit Chicago’s poorest black neighborhoods with a clipboard and...
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 when it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass.Why?When you are consumed with the rightness or wrongness of a given issue—whether it's frack...
Consider the Iraq War. It was executed primarily on U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was in league with al Qaeda. To be sure, there was more to it than that—politics...
Consider the kind of questions that kids ask. Sure, they may be silly or simplistic or out of bounds. But kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased. Because they know so little, they...
Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed?
Cuando a la gente no se la obliga a pagar todos los costes de sus acciones, tiene pocos incentivos para cambiar de conducta.
Failure may be an option but quitting is not.
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg understood this. In medicine, or in science, [if] you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we...
Gun murders are down? Well, you figure, that must be from all those tough new gun laws—until you examine the data and find that most people who commit crimes with guns are almost entirely unaffected b...
Gut hunches are routinely passed off as dogma while conventional wisdom flourishes even when there is no data to back it up.
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...
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...
His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument.
If it takes a lot of courage to admit you don't know all the answers, just imagine how hard it is to admit you don't even know the right question. But if you ask the wrong question, you are almost gua...
If you study the words in ads for a real-estate agent’s own home, meanwhile, you see that she indeed emphasizes descriptive terms (especially new, granite, maple, and move-in condition) and avoids emp...
If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, you’d be right.
In 1960, about 40 percent of female teachers scored in the top quintile of IQ and other aptitude tests, with only 8 percent in the bottom. Twenty years later, fewer than half as many were in the top q...
La contratación de un mayor número de efectivos policiales explica aproximadamente el 10% del descenso de la criminalidad en los noventa.
La distinción entre una mujer que elige controlar su fertilidad y el gobierno que elige limitar su fertilidad es fundamental y la gente con frecuencia parece perder de vista esta diferencia.
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