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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
— Michael Parenti
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for…
— Jay Leno
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I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all…
— Anne Northup
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Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution....…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all…
— Wendy Doniger
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The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,
— Wendy Doniger
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Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic…
— Beverly Johnson
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[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans.…
— Sheena Iyengar
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Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?
— Richard Dawkins
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Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.
— Daryl Hall
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