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Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds
For most of us, there is a large gap between what we know and what we think we know. We hold a level of confidence about our factual knowledge and predictions that doesn’t match our abilities. Since...
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Mazateconomics
(2nd post on rational behavior of people too hastily judged irrational) “These villagers have some really messed-up building practices.” That’s a common reaction by gringos on first visiting rural...
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Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis in the Engineering and Procurement of...
The use of weighted-sum value matrices is a core component of many system-procurement and organizational decisions including risk assessments. In recent years the USAF has eliminated weighted-sum...
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How to Pick a Spouse
Bekhap’s Law asserts that brains times beauty equals a constant. Can this be true? Are intellect and beauty quantifiable? Is beauty a property of the subject of investigation, or a quality of the mind...
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