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The Cognitive Bias Song/What Kinds of Biases are the Most Important and Common?
Thread Starter: Yarn

What Kinds of biases do you think are the most important? Do you think the song missed some important ones? If so, which
Last Post By: Yarn 18th June 2013, 06:07 PM

Why are so many improvements actually "improvements"?
Thread Starter: grandpa
In case you didn't understand the quotation marks, it's intended to mean that they are not actually improvements at all. I will give a very simple example:
Last Post By: Dodds 18th June 2013, 04:50 PM

Money and gun control
Thread Starter: Athena
I think the history of the US which brings to the protected right to bare arms, makes us very leery of gun control laws, but really how many guns can
Last Post By: Thanatos 18th June 2013, 02:41 PM

31 killed, 57 wounded in suicide bombing at Baghdad mosque
Thread Starter: grandpa
"At least 31 people were killed and 57 others were wounded when two suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
Last Post By: barts 18th June 2013, 01:50 PM

what vanished troopers?
Thread Starter: Athena
I am not sure I believe this, but then I also wonder, is what is inside the cave like the ark the Hebrews carried?
Last Post By: Athena 18th June 2013, 01:12 PM
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Walmart Protest Movement Grows

They both have tasks they have to complete, unique knowledge they have to use, and decisions they have to make. If jobs have the same scheme then they
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Directed Evolution

They are researching the genetic basis of intelligence, not practicing eugenics, although this sort of research could facilitate eugenics someday.
Yarn 18th June 2013, 06:28 PM

Organized religion fosters racism

Poke'mon was also very divisive. Lots of kids wouldn't talk to you if you didn't like it. That was sad.
Yarn 18th June 2013, 06:18 PM

The Cognitive Bias Song/What Kinds of Biases are the Most Important and Common?

What Kinds of biases do you think are the most important? Do you think the song missed some important ones? If so, which
Yarn 18th June 2013, 06:07 PM

Zimmerman, innocent or guilty? National consequences for an innocent verdict?

No, but you are.

The onus is on you to provide a reason why we should ignore behavior that can easily be perceived as suspicious
finder 18th June 2013, 06:01 PM
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Walmart Protest Movement Grows
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"As Walmart workers this week resume strikes at stores around the nation, organizers are saying that more employees than ever have joined the ranks of the activists, with some experts going so far as...
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Directed Evolution
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Like all living beings, the human animal continues to evolve. But unlike other living beings, the human animal is capable of directing its own evolution. The Chinese are, apparently, engaged in a...
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Organized religion fosters racism
Thread Starter: saintmaikeru
http://news.usc.edu/#!/article/26776/Study-Links-Religious-Groups-and-Racial-Bias http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/?p=1734 Basically what happens is that, since most churches aren't...
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Zimmerman, innocent or guilty? National consequences for an innocent verdict?
Thread Starter: controllah
This thing is about to kick off I think. So I'll kick off a new round of discussion. I think he's innocent. And I think we will see national unrest if found innocent. Thoughts? Keep in mind,...
Last Post By: finder 18th June 2013, 06:01 PM

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Thread Starter: Yarn
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt Do you agree or disagree with this claim?
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