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We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

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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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I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in… — Tyra Banks
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh
The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they… — Abraham Lincoln
I'm aware of the power of looks. I've wanted to play roles that have gone to much better-looking people and you just… — Benedict Cumberbatch
I never lived the life of 'Oh, you're so good-looking'. People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I… — Bradley Cooper
If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try… — Brittany Daniel
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H.G. Wells
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. — Vivienne Westwood
There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives… — Rob Lowe
Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. — Douglas Coupland
He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people,… — David Haye
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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