derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 08 2009 | economics, humanity, interesting, science, experimentsBasically just a boatload of interesting stuff.
Quoted: Tversky and Kahneman conducted the following experiment
When contemplating the purchase of a $25 pen, the majority of subjects would drive to another store 15 minutes away to save $7
When contemplating the purchase of a $455 suit, the majority of subjects would not drive to another store 15 minutes away to save $7
The amount saved and time involved are the same, but people make very different choices- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | culture, brain, TED, politics, humanity, evolution, religion, interesting, video
Fascinating stuff -- less than 20 minutes, but well paced and very thought provoking.
Quoted: Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening ...
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 14 2008 | social networking, politics, facebook, conservativism, libertarianism, privacy, humanity, evolution, singularity, peter thiel, futurology
Quoted: Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind…
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