Las conductas social y económica, añade, «son complejas, y comprender su carácter resulta mentalmente agotador.
Lester and others suggests the opposite: suicide is more common among people with a higher quality of life. If you’re unhappy and you have something to blame your unhappiness on—if it’s the government...
Los sesenta y setenta fueron, en retrospectiva, una época fabulosa para ser delincuente callejero en la mayor parte de las ciudades norteamericanas. Las probabilidades de recibir un castigo eran tan b...
Mount Pinatubo was the most powerful volcanic eruption in nearly one hundred years. Within two hours of the main blast, sulfuric ash had reached twenty-two miles into the sky. By the time it was done,...
No entanto, quando se prende um fornecedor, cria-se uma situação de escassez que, inevitavelmente, impulsiona os preços para cima, o que atrai ainda mais fornecedores para o mercado. A guerra contra d...
Parece que forma parte de la condición humana creer en nuestra capacidad de predicción… y también olvidar rápidamente lo malas que resultaron ser nuestras predicciones.
Particular gift is the ability to ask such questions. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Wh...
Perhaps the most dramatic effect of legalized abortion, however, and one that would take years to reveal itself, was its impact on crime. In the early 1990s, just as the first cohort of children born...
Pero por supuesto, eso depende de quién lo haga. Si lo hiciera Al Gore, podría conseguir un segundo premio Nobel de la Paz; si fuera Hugo Chávez, probablemente recibiría pronto una visita de los avion...
Roland G. Fryer Jr., while discussing his names research on a radio show, took a call from a black woman who was upset with the name just given to her baby niece. It was pronounced shuh-TEED but was i...
Se podría sugerir que la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.
Terrorism is effective because it imposes costs on everyone, not just its direct victims. The most substantial of these indirect costs is fear of a future attack, even though such fear is grossly misp...
There is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction.
This is an encouraging finding on two fronts. It means that young black children have continued to make gains relative to their white counterparts. It also means that whatever gap remains can be linke...
Todos desean triunfar en un campo extremadamente competitivo en el que, si alcanzan la cima, les pagan una fortuna (por no hablar de la gloria y el poder que comporta).
Tras una larga experimentación, descubrió dos agentes capaces de engañar al sistema de «punto para set». Unas cucharadas de aceite sin saborizantes (utilizó aceite de canola o de oliva extra light), i...
We are blind to our blindness.
What most of these doomsday scenarios have gotten wrong is the fundamental idea of economics: people respond to incentives. If the price of a good goes up, people demand less of it, the companies that...
Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary. Or,
When asked to name the attributes of someone who is particularly bad at predicting, Tetlock needed just one word. Dogmatism, he says. That is, an unshakable belief they know something to be true even...
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