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Vul and Pashler wanted to find out if the same effect extends to occasion noise: can you get closer to the truth by combining two guesses from the same person, just as you do when you combine the guesses of different people? As they discovered, the answer is yes. Vul and Pashler gave this finding an evocative name: the crowd within.
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
30. Compassion Fatigue:
The saturation of the web with news of tragedies, which is intended to rouse our empathy, is ironically habituating and desensitizing us to human suffering, making us overall less empathic.
Everyone, a New MEGATHRE...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
Deconstruction: How small can I break things down into their basic units of learning, such as individual vocabulary words or grammatical rules? Selection: What are the 20 percent of those units that will give me 80 percent of the benefits (Pareto’s Principle)? Sequencing: What is the best order in which to learn these units? Stakes: How can I use psychology or social pressure to condense my timelines and push myself to learn faster?
The Only Skill That Matters
Jonathan A. Levi
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