Citation — to study Ivan Hernandez and Jesse Lee Preston, Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49(1): 178-182 (January 2013) Citation — to press release Diana Yates, Difficult-to-read font reduces political polarity, study finds, University of Illinois (02 November 2012) Background — what is confirmation bias? From the abstract: One difficulty [...]
Categories: Culture,Education,Psychology,Science
Tagged: analytic processing, analytical brain, comprehensive consideration, confirmation bias, Daniel Kahneman, Diana Yates, difficult-to-read font, disfluency, disfluent format, font, Ivan Hernandez, Jesse Lee Preston, political ideology, political polarization, System 1, System 2, Thinking Fast and Slow
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- 3 November 2012 – 17:19
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- By BrainiYak
For those of us accustomed to the effects of violence, this may not be surprising The University of Toronto reported that: Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving “executive functioning” — psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification — than those in a school relying [...]
Categories: Education,Psychology,Public Health,Science
Tagged: beating, corporal punishment, Effects of a Punitive Environment on Children's Executive Functioning, Joyann Callender, Kang Lee, Spare the rod and develop the child, Stephanie M. Carlson, Victoria Talwar
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- 27 July 2011 – 18:32
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- By BrainiYak
Editor-in-chief of Make magazine knows a bit about education Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make magazine, wrote a short and persuasive article in The Atlantic about the value of hands-on education for kids (and pretty much everyone else). The ideal educational environment for kids, observes Peter Gray, a professor of psychology . . . is one [...]
Categories: Education
Tagged: Mark Frauenfelder, School for Hackers
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- 22 September 2010 – 13:44
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- By BrainiYak
Embracing self-destructive behavior gets us nowhere, no matter what race or culture we are Bob Herbert, being African American, can write what is true, without immediately being silenced, ridiculed, or defamed by the ever-present monitors of American Political Correctness. Extracts from Mr. Herbert’s essay include: Parental neglect, racial discrimination and an orgy of self-destructive behavior [...]
Categories: Culture,Education,Ethics
Tagged: African-Americans, Bob Herbert, enslavement, Native Americans, Oklahoma, oppression, political correctness, Too Long Ignored
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- 21 August 2010 – 09:15
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- By BrainiYak
Sometimes, it is about being culturally stupider than drool Columnist Bob Herbert wrote about this topic last Friday: As incredible as it seems from the perspective of 2010, the report from the College Board tells us that “it is expected that the educational level of the younger generation of Americans will not approach their parents’ [...]
Categories: Economy,Education
Tagged: associate, Bob Herbert, college, degrees, education rankings, nation rankings, nitwits, Putting Our Brains on Hold
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- 9 August 2010 – 12:24
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- By BrainiYak
Bob Herbert ─ speaking directly with insight, eloquently with soul Bob Herbert (of the New York Times) consistently speaks for America’s lost heart. Today, he wrote that: What a country. We’ll do whatever it takes to make sure the bankers keep living the high life and swilling that Champagne while at the same time we’re taking [...]
Categories: Economy,Education,Ethics
Tagged: Bob Herbert, Bob King, labor, labor movement, labor unions, Outside the Casino, Restoring a Hallowed Vision, schoolchildren, U.A.W.
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- 13 July 2010 – 11:29
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- By BrainiYak
Scientific thinking model has applicability outside science and technology Exporting the scientific thinking process outside American science classrooms would benefit the United States beyond usual measures of scientific and technological global competitiveness. American education arguably fails to teach analytical thinking As a nation, we think poorly. Americans generally don’t know the rules of (or reasons for) [...]
Categories: Culture,Education,Science
Tagged: analytical thinking, educational system, magical thinking
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- 7 July 2010 – 12:42
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- By BrainiYak