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  • Re: Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias

    Media bias is a perceived notion that certain press has and is pushing a viewpoint, instead of reporting news or airing programs in an objective way. That is the way I see it. Such bias often refers to media as a whole, such as a newspaper chain, or a given television or radio network, instead of individual reporters or writers of television ...
    Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 2008

  • Long Tail isn't a Theory and lacks Value

    PUNCHLINE: Anderson's Long Tail Theory is not a true theory and lacks value due to its narrow applicability to general decision science and, or economics. In other words, capital investors and business executives would be well advised to avoid applying the ''Long Tail'' theory to most business decisions - as the dot.com bust proved. A theory is ...
    Posted to Technology by mwdenis on July 22, 2008

  • Of mice, men ... and apes

    I'm Steve Joordens, a tenured professor from the University of Toronto Scarborough. I have discussed the issue of animal equality with my class because it is one that always provokes deep thought and discussion. I recently formalized this by asking them to react to a target piece in which I argue that the only way for humanity to move forward is ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Joordens on July 2, 2008

  • Can a night Owl become a morning person? I did!

    Oh yes. The infamous title of ''night owl''. I have been dubbed a night owl for as far back as I could remember. I have never liked getting up early in the morning, nor have I ever enjoyed getting less than eight hours of sleep in one evening. After having my son, I had tried and tried to become a morning lover but I had failed miserably. I've ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by SaphireLee on June 17, 2008

  • still kinda missing the point . . .

    While it's nice of Mr. Saletan to respond to reader comments on his article on the study about oral sex, I feel he still missed some of the leading points made by myself and others. These are: 1) The current generation of teens and people in their twenties is so divorced from historical knowledge of how oral sex may have been seen back in the ...
    Posted to Human Nature by TheCloudBoy on May 30, 2008

  • cross-cultural data is inherently elusive

    Persuasive cross-cultural research on this will be tough to design because procrastination is tough to define and to measure. What is procrastination? A cigarette break? What about students cleaning their bathroom as papers are due and exams loom? Would this be characterized as procrastinating on writing and study, or as reducing procrastination ...
    Posted to Procrastination by JonathanKroner on May 17, 2008

  • Raises Interesting Follow-Up Questions

    The result that the number of fat cells is set in adolescence and remains constant through adulthood, by the bodies fixed fat cell replacement rate boggles my mind. I have questions about pushing the limits of this. The summary talks about people who were overweight in adolescence. What about a person who was lean in adolescence? How much ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by EnergyLawyer on May 14, 2008

  • Better data than Cookie's Cheating Survey

    The General Social Survey (sociology's premier social survey - and of course, unlike Cookie, it's nationally representative) asks how many people have EVER cheated on their spouse. The average over the last decade is about 13%. If we divide that up by gender, it's 17% of men and 11% of women. Now, eyeballing the data by income (the website ...
    Posted to XX Factor by CG2S on May 13, 2008

  • Re: Why the sacks?

    I wondered that myself. Maybe it is for removability. Makes them easier to reclaim or sweep out of the blood stream. seems like that much plastic would be harder on natural elimination. Just a SWAG on my part.
    Posted to Human Nature by BigMooseDaddy on May 2, 2008

  • Re: In my opinion..

    With the US IN DEEP RECESSION!!!! (http://www.financialpost.com/ story. html?id=326071) Dr. Rookmin Maharaj’s Corporate Governance Model may be one of the solutions to bringing the US economy back on tract. Dr. Maharaj’s research work examines the characteristics (knowledge, groupthink, and values) and tools (interconnections, evaluations and ...
    Posted to Moneybox by Dr. Maharaj on April 16, 2008
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