Deadly Distractions
I throw my backpack into the backseat, announce to FD:
I’m doing something radical. I’m just leaving my phone back there.
He goes into a rant:
You, on a bad day, checking email, texting, answering calls, making calls, talking on the phone, are still a better driver than most people. I think it’s about skill, attention, [...]
Basketball & endogeneity
Basketball is very important here in Kentucky. While at the mall today, on the back of a guy’s hoodie today I saw the slogan “Basketball doesn’t build character. It reflects it!” So this guy, or the person who designed his apparel, had a strong awareness of how unobserved heterogeneity can lead to misleading [...]
Anxiety Treatment – The Natural Remedy for Anxiety Relief
Summary:L-theanine, naturally occuring in green tea, proves effective in dealing with anxiety sypmtoms and providing anxiety relief.
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Article Body:L-Theanine, naturally occurring in green tea, proves effective in dealing with anxiety symptoms and providing anxiety relief
Anxiety is a state of intense fear, uncertainty, uneasiness, or [...]
Weekend Links
1. Karl Whelan on whether we need more PhD Economists in the civil service
2. Stephen Kinsella on the road to recovery
3. A remarkable piece by George Osborne and Richard Thaler. I somehow doubt that “We can make you behave” was a title they suggested to the editors.
4. The Keynes/Hayek rap is up to over 350,000 [...]
Why I take a high dose vitamin B
Following on from my last post about Niacin (vitamin B3 ), and how it helped lower my blood cholesterol and thus helping to improve my health the natural way without the aid of drugs and all its side effects.
I would now use Niacin 100mg all of the time, however I was not able to buy [...]
Personality Tests Published Online
Last year, as part of Wikipedia’s entry on the Rorschach Inkblot test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test), Dr. James Heilman, an emergency-room physician in Canada, posted all ten inkblots along with the most common responses to each. A controversy erupted from the posting. Many felt, not only were copyright laws violated, the integrity and validity of [...]
Websurvey tools
We are converted MMIC users in our research group and are currently very comfortable with its features for doing experiments and so on. American Evaluation Twitter page link to surveygizmo . Worth having a look at this to see whether it has useful features above what your own web package can do.
5 Tips For Relieving Burnout
It starts with fatigue. You feel tired and overwhelmed, and you struggle to get things done. Soon negative thoughts come into play – and your cynicism leads you to feel helpless. Before you know it, you’re in a state of Burnout.
Whether it is work, school or family, sometimes Burnout gets the better of us. Here [...]
Drivers deluding themselves
Most drivers think that they are better than average despite the fact that this is statistically impossible. Researchers from Ottawa University polled nearly 400 drivers who were asked to rate how they would cope with different driving conditions such as poor weather, emergency stops and fast roads with heavy traffic. They were also asked how [...]
Birth Order and Personality
Samantha Murphy has created a very informative website on birth order and personality. The site provides a basic summary of what birth order is and what personality traits tend to be correlated with each position. From my limited knowledge of birth order, the site appears to be fairly accurate and can be found [...]