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Saturday, November 10, 2012

How Scammers turns your overconfidence into recklessness

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Do you really know your strengths? Or are you overestimating them? (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Every one of us is overconfident about o...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Persuasion: Fear, Guilt, Low-Ball, High-ball, and buddy

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Evil Inside (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Lifehacker posted an article for their "evil week" where they lists "3 of the easi...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Scam is NOT hereditary, but grandpa types can be dangerous

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Previously we've explored the possible link between scam and psychopathy (i.e. lack of empathy for others). [Read Are Scammers Sociopa...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Scam Detection and... Quantum Physics?

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schrodingers lolcat (Photo credit: Arthur H. ) News of Nobel Prize given to two scientists who was able to actually create an ex...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

When in Doubt... Do Something, and LEARN FROM IT

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A lot of readers seem to think I am a very... "negative" person, as I seem to see the world with jaundiced eyes, that every MLM th...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

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Gaussian Distribution Source:  Wikipedia ) People often think they have intuitive grasp of statistics, and the reality is very few of...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Hanlon's Razor, and the human potential

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TED (conference) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) World Renowned psychologist Viktor Frankl held a talk in 1972, and it's preserve...