Dark Hair and Light Eyes in Female College Students: A Potential Biologic Marker for Liability to Psychopathology
That is an interesting correlation, if confirmed:
A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Informal observation suggested that dark-haired/light eyed females (target group) might have a liability to psychopathology. Questionnaire data obtained from eight large undergraduate classes during a four year period (1974-77) yielded consistently higher percentages of target group individuals reporting hospitalization of first-degree relatives and of self. (Editor)
Artificial Intelligence Bots Speaking To Each other
It’s Not Your Imagination. It Really IS Much Harder to Get Hired During A Recession.
I used to be an executive recruiter and I can tell you: the worse a recession is, the more demanding the prospective employers become. I remember trying to fill high-level software sales positions after the dot com collapse for hiring managers who didn’t want “any of those dot com people.” (Apparently they showed too great an affinity for risk-taking.) And yet, all the experienced candidates worked for them, so they ended up hiring people who didn’t know what they were doing.
Incentives, Disincentives and Spoiled Brat Syndrome
charles hugh smith-Incentives, Disincentives and Spoiled Brat Syndrome
One of my carpentry masters was an African-American gent from New Orleans. Back in the early 1970s when I first began working for him and his partner (a Caucasian gent), he told me that how he’d found work in tough times was to approach the foreman of a construction project, point to a worker on the site and say that he could do more work than that guy.The foreman would give him a once-over and put him to work. The next day, the other guy would be gone and my boss would have his job.
That’s called getting and holding a job based on output and nothing else.
Touching or imagining touch sensations leads to more sales
Want to Save Some Money? Shop Without Touching - TIME
To test this hypothesis, the authors added an extra layer to the experiment. After the students either touched or didn’t touch the Slinky and coffee mug, they asked about half of them to imagine picking up the products and bringing them home. They asked the other half to simply evaluate the products in their minds. Among those who touched the products, imagining ownership did not affect the price they’d be willing to pay for them. However, among those who didn’t touch the items — a group that shares the same hands-free experience as online shoppers — picturing ownership led to significantly higher valuations of the products.
Optimizing humans for machine-like performance
Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Takriti confesses that he’s nervous. His assignment is to translate the complexity of highly intelligent knowledge workers into the same types of equations and algorithms that are used to fine-tune shipping or predict the life span and production of a mainframe computer. With time, he and his team hope to build detailed models for each worker, each one complete with a person’s quirks, daily commute, and allies, perhaps even enemies. These models might one day include whether the workers eat beef or pork, how seriously they take the Sabbath, whether a bee sting or a peanut sauce could lay them low. No doubt, some of them thrive even in the filthy air in Beijing or Mexico City, while others wheeze. If so, the models would eventually include this detail, among countless others. The idea is to build richly textured models that behave in their symbolic realm just like their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Then planners can manipulate them, looking for the most efficient combinations.
Triumph of the idiots
Abstract Generator Factory: Triumph of the Idiots
Intelligent people get squeezed out of organisations, given time. For some reason the combination of intelligence and ladder-climbing almost never co-exists. Senior executives of large companies often get described as being intelligent, but this is just mistaking outward signs of achievement with intelligence. Anyone can make money in a rising market, it’s only those who seem to make a company grow when the odds are against them (e.g. Steve Jobs’ return to Apple) are worthy of praise; the rest were just fortunate to be sitting on a boat in the rising tide.
Evidence of this can be seen in the competition between any large companies, this phenomenon explains why Microsoft can never quite do what Google does. It explained why IBM could never quite catch up with Microsoft. Etc. It’s not that they became too large, or too complacent, it’s because they became too stupid. They are collectively idiots. It’ll happen to Google too, given time.
Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage - Telegraph
Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage - Telegraph
Writing in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, the researchers conclude: “Facial hair, or beardedness, is a powerful sociosexual signal, and an obvious biological marker of sexual maturity.“Facial hair may have been sexually selected by females on the basis of associated male success, despite its threatening appearance. Clean-shaven faces therefore may suggest appeasement, as well as being an obvious sign of sexual immaturity.
Men prefer being solo over a bad marriage: study
Men prefer being solo over a bad marriage: study - Yahoo! News
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Bachelor Carl Weisman got fed up of being classified as a playboy, a loser or a commitment-phobe so he set out to find out exactly why he and a growing number of eligible men were steering clear of marriage.
ADVERTISEMENTWeisman, 49, conducted a survey of 1,533 heterosexual men to research a book aiming to give women an insight into why some smart, successful men opted to stay single — and help lifelong bachelors understand why they are still the solo man at parties.
Gender gap: are women choosing to be where they are?
The freedom to say ‘no’ - The Boston Globe
Now two new studies by economists and social scientists have reached a perhaps startling conclusion: An important part of the explanation for the gender gap, they are finding, are the preferences of women themselves. When it comes to certain math- and science-related jobs, substantial numbers of women - highly qualified for the work - stay out of those careers because they would simply rather do something else.
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