2010/1/13 J. Andrew Rogers and...@ceruleansystems.com
To point out a significant bias, in most militaries I am familiar with the
standards of behavior, compliance, and myriad other things for females are
substantially laxer than for males. Explicitly so, not just as a matter of
practice.
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Ingrid wrote:
The other inherent bias is the ''type'' of woman that joins the military. A
military career is a fairly conformist choice for many men, but relatively
nonconformist, even challenging, for most women. Similar findings have been
observed in the
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Jim Grisanzio jim.grisan...@sun.com wrote:
Raul wrote:
Yep, was fun reading... There's this analogy in ThinkerToys:
http://books.google.com/books?id=5ozm2lpj05QCpg=PA51
quote
Imagine a cage containing five monkeys.
...
Good story. I certainly know a few
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:24, Raul raul.li...@gmail.com wrote:
There's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_(sociology)
Discovery (or was it NatGeo?) had shown a research study on the
inherent differences in the way a human brain processes information,
thence their reactions. They
On Wednesday 13 Jan 2010 9:35:36 am . wrote:
Discovery (or was it NatGeo?)
snip
Isnt it a cognitive bias to conduct a study on a small statistical
sample, and then apply that generalization on half the wolds populace
Discovery and NatGeo have perpetrated a massive fraud on the entire world
ss [13/01/10 09:52 +0530]:
On the forums of Bharat Rakshak there is a well known Discovery channel
syndrome in which actual military problems are sought to be solved by
hypothetical solutions shown on Discovery/NatGeo.
Discussed the tom clancy syndrome yet? Poor guy just didnt like indira
On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:05 PM, . wrote:
Discovery (or was it NatGeo?) had shown a research study on the
inherent differences in the way a human brain processes information,
thence their reactions. They showed a team of army recruits being made
to march around a restaurant few times while the
Manar Hussain wrote:
Playing devil's advocate somewhat, there's a cost as well as a
potential pay-off to not just playing along.
Yep. Huge cost. And sometimes people pay with their lives.
A friend floored me recently with her
approach. I know her as very sure of her (core) beliefs. She let
Raul wrote:
Yep, was fun reading... There's this analogy in ThinkerToys:
http://books.google.com/books?id=5ozm2lpj05QCpg=PA51
quote
Imagine a cage containing five monkeys.
...
Good story. I certainly know a few of those monkeys (and a few
veterinarians studying real monkeys too). But I
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
Modern science is populated by expert insiders, schooled in narrow
disciplines. Researchers have all studied the same thick textbooks,
which make the world of
2010/1/6 Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
* By Jonah Lehrer
* December 21, 2009 |
* 10:00 am |
* Wired Jan 2010
Nice. I should send this to my scientist father.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
* By Jonah Lehrer
* December 21, 2009 |
* 10:00 am |
* Wired Jan 2010
It all started with the sound of static. In May 1964, two astronomers
at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias
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