I get more spam than anyone I know. -- Bill Gates Have you been receiving more spam phone calls lately? Do you hate them? Do you still occasionally get tricked into answering them? Today, we're …
Psychology Crisis? Not Yet
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard If you’ve seen any news headlines about science lately, you’ve probably read something like: “Out …
The False Consensus Effect
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Nietzsche We have a serious tendency to overestimate how …
Facts: What You Want Them to Be
The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Huxley So the other day, I was doing some intensive graduate research on a series of tests informing me …