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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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Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.
— Alexa Chung
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How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?
— Matt Groening
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We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between…
— Darrel Ray
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I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming…
— Vincent Gallo
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In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture.…
— Massimo Vignelli
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's…
— Alan Greenspan
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The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a…
— Judith Crist
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Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,…
— Ronald Graham
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As we move on into this so-called biotech revolution and we start producing more and more transgenic manipulations, we'll start seeing pieces…
— Ignacio Chapela
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Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not…
— Oliver Heaviside
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(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that…
— Jacques Ellul
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Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the…
— Kenny Smith
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