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It looks like telling people "everyone is biased" might make people not want to change their behavior to overcome their biases: In initial e

Here is an interesting blog post about a guy who did a resume experiment between two positions which he argues are by experience identical,

I found this Quora discussion very informative. 2. Develop the ability to become an active reader. Don't just passively read material you ar

This is interesting. Apparently, meditating for 15 minutes can reduce susceptibility to the sunk cost bias. Across two separate experiments,

How "one weird trick" conquered the Internet. Some excerpt I found interesting: Research on persuasion shows the more arguments you list in

From the blog [Bakadesuyo](http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2013/10/productivity-ninja/): >1) Know When You’re At Your Best >And plan accordingly

This recent article at Slate thinks so: Why Your 4-Year-Old Is As Smart as Nate Silver It turns out that even very young children reas

Apparently a PhD candidate at the Social Robotics Lab at Yale created a self-aware robot:  In the mirror test, developed by Gordon Gallup

In every single news story that I can remember about someone getting stranded with a broken-down car, the person leaves their car looking fo

I've had a bit of success with getting people to understand Bayesianism at parties and such, and I'm posting this thought experiment that I