JQuinton

It looks like telling people "everyone is biased" might make people not want to change their behavior to overcome their biases: > In initial experiments, participants were simply asked to rate a particular group, such as women, on a series of stereotypical characteristics, which for women were: warm, family-oriented and...

Here is an interesting blog post about a guy who did a resume experiment between two positions which he argues are by experience identical, but occupy different "social status" positions in tech: A software engineer and a data manager. > Interview A: as Software Engineer > > Bill faced five...

I found this Quora discussion very informative. > 2. Develop the ability to become an active reader. Don't just passively read material you are given. But pose questions, develop hypotheses and actively test them as you read through the material. I think this is what another poster referred to when...

This is interesting. Apparently, meditating for 15 minutes can reduce susceptibility to the sunk cost bias. > Across two separate experiments, the researchers tested this by giving one group of participants a 15-minute mindfulness meditation induction. > Then they were given a business scenario which was designed to test the...

How "one weird trick" conquered the Internet. Some excerpt I found interesting: > Research on persuasion shows the more arguments you list in favor of something, regardless of the quality of those arguments, the more that people tend to believe it,” Norton says. “Mainstream ads sometimes use long lists of...

From the blog [Bakadesuyo](http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2013/10/productivity-ninja/): >1) Know When You’re At Your Best >And plan accordingly. To be a productivity ninja focus less on time management, and more on managing your energy. >Charlie Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, used a system like this to make sure he was always growing. >He identified...

This recent article at Slate thinks so: Why Your 4-Year-Old Is As Smart as Nate Silver > It turns out that even very young children reason [using Bayes Theorem]. For example, my student Tamar Kushnir, now at Cornell, and I showed 4-year-olds a toy and told them that blocks made...