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Bias Against Null Results: Studies that find something surprising are more interesting than studies that don't, so they're more likely to be published. This creates the impression the world is more surprising than it actually is. Also applies to news, Twitter.
My Peoples, the Time Has...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
en moins de dix ans, entre 1990 et 2000, la Russie postcommuniste est passée du statut de pays qui avait réduit les inégalités monétaires à l’un des plus bas niveaux observés dans l’histoire à celui d’un des pays les plus inégalitaires du monde.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
When the need to stretch is not spontaneous, management needs to create an environment to foster it. In an MBO system, for example, objectives should be set at a point high enough so that even if the individual (or organization) pushes himself hard, he will still only have a fifty-fifty chance of making them. Output will tend to be greater when everybody strives for a level of achievement beyond his immediate grasp, even though trying means failure half the time. Such goal-setting is extremely important if what you want is peak performance from yourself and your subordinates.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
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