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Poverty, psychology and pseudoscience
From the abstract of ‘Why Do People Stay Poor? Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh’, November 24, 2020: There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent or … Continue reading
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Tagged astrology, attentional space, Ayurveda, cognitive function, faith-based medicine, intelligence, IQ, John Henryism, phytotherapy, Poverty, poverty trap, pseudoscience, scarcity, Sendhil Mullainathan, traditional medicine
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What’s common to #yesallwomen, scripta manent, good journalism and poka-yoke?
A professing of intelligence without continuous practice can, and will, occasionally legitimise immature thinking. Continue reading
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Tagged #notallmen, #yesallwomen, Annie Zaidi, climate change, false balance, Fatal Beatings, feminism, Franz Rosenzweig, free speech, Indian Constitution, intelligence, molestation, patriarchy, poka-yoke, Rowan Atkinson, slapstick, The Quint, written word
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The capacity to notoriety of work
Why is it considered OK to flaunt hard work? Will there come a time when it might be more prudent to mask long hours of work behind a finished product and instead behave as if the object was conceived with … Continue reading
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Tagged humility, impudence, intelligence, opportunity, sociology, work
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Building the researcher’s best friend
One of the most pressing problems for someone conducting any research on personal initiative has to be information storage, access, and reproduction. Even if you’re someone who’s just going through interesting papers in pre-print servers and journals and want to … Continue reading
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Tagged content management system, information management system, integration, intelligence, XTF
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