Sleepy Hollow
Remember that scene in Sleepy Hollow, where the roots of the tree of the dead open up to allow the headless horseman through?
My neighbors have their very own little Sleepy Hollow going on here 🙂
Remember that scene in Sleepy Hollow, where the roots of the tree of the dead open up to allow the headless horseman through?
My neighbors have their very own little Sleepy Hollow going on here 🙂
According to the theories of Aerodynamics, the bumblebee should be unable to fly. The size, weight, and shape of its body, in relationship to its total wing span make it technically impossible to fly. The bumblebee, however, being ignorant of those theories, goes ahead and flies anyway. I was reading an article about how some…
A humorous take on the paradox that exists between the views of us common humans, versus that of psychologists, who take a slightly more empathetic view, and those behavioural science practitioners who try to leverage knowledge of human biases and drivers to grow business without it always being beneficial to customers themselves.
Image: source The Replication Crisis is an ongoing crisis where it has been difficult or impossible to reproduce findings of scientific studies. The field of behavioural science too, has had its challenges with replicating past research findings. Some years ago, peer-reviewed scientific journal, Nature Human Behaviour, attempted to replicate 21 social and behavioural science studies…
Once I started noticing contrasting oddities in our human nature and behaviour a few years ago, a bulk of them ended up in the book ‘Main Batata Hoon’. The thing is though, once you start noticing them in your own life and in your network and surroundings, it is impossible to switch off. One instance…
Many of you must have seen that drawing of a World War II plane with red dots on it. It explains Survivorship bias, a bias that statistician Abraham Wald figured out. Pic: source Simply put, survivor bias is our tendency to view a situation or pattern as a comprehensive representative sample, often without considering what…
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