A 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 parent...
A great deal of conventional wisdom is built on nothing more than a story that someone has been telling for so long—often out of self-interest—that it is treated like gospel.
3. Once people are asked to donate, the social pressure is so great that they get bullied into giving, even though they wish they’d never been asked in the first place. Mullaney knew that number 3 wa...
Honorable mention in the Six-Feet-Under category to the reader who writes: In my hometown [Amarillo, TX], there is a funeral director called Boxwell Brothers. This one can’t be beat.)
«Cuando [los libros] te pertenecen, y son tuyos —declaró—, y simplemente forman parte de tu vida, todo eso contribuye a crear un sentimiento... de que los libros deberían formar parte de tu vida.»
When there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn’t pay well. This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. The others are the specialized skills a...
Que sugiere que el contacto típico de Internet es mentiroso, narcisista o sencillamente tiene una idea muy particular del significado de «media».
Las políticas más exitosas son aquellas que castigan directamente el mal uso, como las sentencias a prisión obligatorias por cualquier crimen que envuelva un arma. En California y en otros lugares, ta...
Just because you’re great at something doesn’t mean you’re good at everything. Unfortunately, this fact is routinely ignored by those who engage in—take a deep breath—ultracrepidarianism, or the habit...
Desde una perspectiva puramente basada en los hechos y la estadística, la raza no es en ningún sentido central para nuestros argumentos acerca del aborto y la criminalidad.
[...]if you are hoping to damage opponents' mental health, go ahead and tell them how inferior or dim-witted or nasty they are. But even if you are certifiably right on every point, you should not thi...
When the solution to a given problem doesn’t lay right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists. But history has shown again and again that such assumptions are wrong.
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...
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.
Por cada persona inteligente que se molesta en crear un esquema de incentivos, existe un ejército de gente, inteligente o no, que inevitablemente invertirá incluso más tiempo en tratar de burlarlos.
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.
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...
It was Klan custom, for instance, to append a Kl to many words. (Thus would two Klansmen hold a Klonversation in the local Klavern.)
It also means that the pain of negative feedback will for most people trump the pleasure from positive feedback.
Information is the currency of the Internet. As a medium, the Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not. Often, a...