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Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data…

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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…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. — Joseph Addison
Religions take donations and don't pay taxes. — Deepak Chopra
Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent. — Paul J. Zak
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. — Thomas Peterffy
Well, I've thought about donating, but they get so many damn donations already. I read about one foundation that raised over 100… — Zach Braff
You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and… — John Heilemann
It's wonderful to work for a company that gives so much back to its communities, especially to our children. Donations are only… — Patricia Brooks
If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do… — Arvind Kejriwal
Poverty isn’t solved with donations. — Carlos Slim
If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some… — Montel Williams
I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws. — Sheila Jackson Lee
As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who… — Montel Williams

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