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
A Payoff Out of Poverty? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker - 4 views
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This is a very interesting point to bring up about perspective and how every problem cannot be so simple. How do we measure the intensity of conflicts when these two conflicts can differ greatly in the number of people affected?
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Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil - 3 views
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.
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I think that this is some sort of sense that is second nature to most people. We like to have order so sometimes someone might go to the extreme and try and find some sort of order in complete chaos.
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Hans Rosling's new insights on poverty | Video on TED.com - 3 views
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I think it's very interesting about what Rosling said about Africa. We have the image of Africa being poor and impoverished but it is the continent that has grown the fastest despite its initially poor conditions. It's all a matter of perspective
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Uzodinma Iweala - Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa - 3 views
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I think it's important to note that all the media cares about is the bad things that happen. They only report how Africa needs to be saved but there is no information of all the good that is being done right now.
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HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING | More Intelligent Life - 5 views
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It's funny how even a simple act of reverse psychology can work so well if used correctly.
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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.”
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While I have not read "The Fountainhead," I have read other works of Ayn Rand and there are very similar themes about individualism and holding value to oneself and one's belongings.
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The emerging moral psychology | Prospect Magazine - 10 views
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Moral Sense Test
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