Survivorship Bias Survivorship bias is very dangerous, as it doesn’t happen inside our brains. The filtering, which is normally done inside our brain, is being done by the world, is the result of unpredictable chaos theory. But since it seems an easy task to study the winners, that’s what people do. Network […]
Brain Softening Technology
Neurology Lecture I saw this very troubling lecture a few days ago. It was at this local book store, I just happened to be there. A neurologist had written a book and was talking about the dangers of relying on too much technology. He said that when we rely on too much […]
Hypothetical Love Insanity
Professor Love There was this PhD student a few decades ago who had some very controversial ideas about love. His theory was that all love was based on self-hypnosis, and he wanted to prove this for his doctoral thesis. He chose ten women at random, on his campus, and didn’t even tell them […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]