And the choice to focus on relative rather than absolute numbers brings up the moral imponderable of whether it is worse for 50 percent of a population of 100 to be killed or 1 percent in a population of one billion.
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Drug experiment - Boston.com - 0 views
System failure - The Boston Globe - 1 views
Steve Santos' questions on inducements (Nov 11th, 2:45 Class) - 32 views
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On the subject of the TED video, I wasn't surprised about how intrinsic motivations beat monetary motivations. However; I was very surprised to learn how much better it is to have money as an inducement. The motivation should be intrinsic with money as just an inducement. The difference between motivation and inducement is that the motivation is the main persuader in whether or not someone wants to do something. The extra money is there just to help and I think more businesses and jobs need to try and run this model for getting hard working employees.
A Payoff Out of Poverty? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil - 3 views
Mangala Kanayson's Questions on Patternicity (2:45 Class) - 13 views
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1. Patternicity could be used in order to cause deceit when telling a causal story. One could bring up a false correlation and say it is the fault of the bank in order to sway the opinion of the polis. I'm sure that during the next presidential campaign the Republicans will blame Obama for situations that he had no hand in. However, patternicity says that the people will want a pattern to follow and someone to blame so they are more inclined to accept the Republicans' statement.
Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise: Scientific American - 7 views
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There is. I call it “patternicity,” or the tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.
Question on Hans Rosling: New Insights on Poverty and Life Around the World. - 24 views
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I think that economic growth cannot be a goal because the only purpose of a good economy is to fuel things like health and culture. The only thing you can do with more money is to spend it on Rosling's other goals that he listed. And to have a society with high human rights and culture, I think that it is only possible to do with money. Things like culture arise from free time and arts but one needs money to be able to reach that status. I feel that he got the Economic part of his "Dimensions of Development" exactly correct but I think that more of the goals should go toward health and the prolonging of human life.
HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING | More Intelligent Life - 5 views
The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views
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“I AM the most offensively possessive man on earth. I do something to things. Let me pick up an ashtray from a dime-store counter, pay for it and put it in my pocket—and it becomes a special kind of ashtray, unlike any on earth, because it’s mine.”
The emerging moral psychology | Prospect Magazine - 10 views
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