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Showing posts with label Confirmation bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confirmation bias. Show all posts
Friday, March 17, 2023

Was Confirmation Bias The Cause For the Batmobile Debacle?

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Confirmation bias is a serious problem that everybody suffers from, and it takes conscious effort to avoid it. Whether it played a part in ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

What do you repost? Think about it a little...

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Specifically... did you fact check it first? A: "Did you fact check this before reposting it?" B: "I don't need to. I...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Anti-Scam: Rough Guide to Spotting Shady Opportunities, Part 1 of 3.

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This guide is an adaptation of "A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science" by "Compound Interest" , converted for spotting ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Scam Psychology: Charlie Munger on How You Screw Up: Part 3 of 6

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Charlie Munger (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) You may have heard of  Charlie Munger . But if you haven't, you should have heard of his p...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Scam Psychology: Charlie Munger on How You Screw Up, Part 2 of 6

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You may have heard of Charlie Munger . But if you haven't, you should have heard of his partner: Warren Buffet , one of the 5 richest ma...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Scam Psychology: Charlie Munger on How You Screw Up, Part 1 of 6

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You may have heard of Charlie Munger . But if you haven't, you should have heard of his partner: Warren Buffet , one of the 5 richest ma...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Bad Propaganda: Avon was NOT a sterling example of MLM success

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 u Avon logo  (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) When trolling for new members, the recruiters for MLM often cite Avon, Amway , and until rece...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Scam Psychology: Why Bad Arguers Often Retreat to Conspiracies As Final Defense

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Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Making a living through selling nothing... like a lot of scams that call themselves network marke...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Scam Psychology: Intelligence is NOT Rationality

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Many people have asked... How can intelligent people, lawyers, doctors, people who got rich through their own efforts, and so on, end up joi...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Scam Psychology: The Need for Self-Delusion

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English: Saul Bellow (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) MLM Skeptic has tracked various scams over several years, and it is always amazing to ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

MLM Absurdities: What is Herbalife Doing in Cambodia?

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Back in November 2013, Herbalife announced it is entering Cambodia  with its flagship products: nutritional shake, personalized protein powd...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

BREAKING NEWS: SEC slaps Troy Dooly of MLMHelpDesk with fines regarding Zeek ponzi

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SEC tweeted on 30-SEP-2013 This is none other than "Troy Dooly" of MLMHelpdesk.com (one of the sites listed in "resource...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

When Scientists are Skeptics, We All Win (Yes, this is Related to MLM, sort of)

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Alan Sokal is a physicist that read the journals where his papers (and tons of other papers) are published, and wondered... Does someone act...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Will John Peterson's Suicide Save Herbalife, or Doom it?

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John Peterson, a Herbalife Millionaire who climbed his way (some say over his downlines' backs) to Herbalife "Founder's Cicle...
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Monday, June 3, 2013

The MLM Test by Rod Cook of MLMWatchDog

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Is your "business" based out of one of these? A UPS Store? Image via CrunchBase Rod Cook, who runs the MLM Watchdog web...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Bad Argument: Imply There's a Conspiracy, Even If There Isn't One

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Yawning Baby (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One of the most persistent arguments presented by defenders of a suspect scheme is the ...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Perception of Savings is More Important Than Real Savings

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JCPenney in Frisco, TX (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Human psychology is often counterintuitive. Perception of savings is often more ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Idiocy of Trying to Profit from a Scam Without Violating Any Laws

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In a lot of these pyramid schemes and suspicious HYIPs, those who get in early makes money (and those who start such things, of course) and ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Bad Argument: "They are all liars!"

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All Marketers Are Liars (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One of the ways the suspicious scheme perpetrators use to keep the minions in line ...
Monday, January 21, 2013

10 Dumb Things Apparently Brilliant MLM People Do

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Português do Brasil: Representação gráfica do marketing multinível (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Brilliant people do a lot of thi...