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Overcoming Bias : Ponder Questions
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July 21, 2013 9:45 am. Middot; Next ». A Harvard assistant dean of admissions:. You had to look for people who could come into a very competitive environment, who could still find self-esteem and who in some way, shape or form was still the best at something. How do you figure that out? It was never the answers they gave. It was the questions they asked. The questions give a much better clue to how a person thinks. Answers can be learned, can be rote. But it’s the questions. ( more. 8221; you might ask &...
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Roboseyo: Mirror Images, or The State of English Language Journalism In Korea
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One expat's life in Korea. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Mirror Images, or The State of English Language Journalism In Korea. I am intrigued by the way these two articles came across my feed around the same time. Because they are the mirror images of each other. Foreigners are all like this! Http:/ www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2015/07/162 183210.html. That was part two. Part one of Hey everyone! Foreigners are all like this! Koreans are all like this! Makes it into a mockery. Anyway, see you all again...
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Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 210,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included! | Open Culture
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Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 210,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included! 8211; Open Culture. The best free cultural and educational media on the web. Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 210,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included! April 7th, 2015 7 Comments. We all found it impressive when Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum put up 125,000 Dutch works of art online. Users can explore the entire collection, which is handily sorted by artist, subject, style and even by events in Dutch history.
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10,173 Free Grateful Dead Concert Recordings in the Internet Archive | Open Culture
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10,173 Free Grateful Dead Concert Recordings in the Internet Archive – Open Culture. The best free cultural and educational media on the web. 10,173 Free Grateful Dead Concert Recordings in the Internet Archive. November 22nd, 2012 3 Comments. Even resolute non-Deadheads have been passing around Deadhead. Piece on the vast recorded legacy of the Grateful Dead. Like much of the most interesting magazine journalism, the article digs deep into and provides a primer on a subculture that. New Yorker Out Loud.
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November 2014 – Mark James Russell
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Books, blog and other blather. Young-hee and the Pullocho. Young-hee and the Pullocho. Joining Colin Marshall’s Notebook. November 23, 2014. The charming and insightful Colin Marshall, host of the website Notebook on Cities and Culture. Recently traveled to Korea to turn his analytical eye here. He wrote several articles about Korea for. And he also conducted a whole bunch of interviews with artists, thinkers, trendsetters, and, well, me. You can listen to me here. Play that Funkafric music. But she was ...
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Overcoming Bias : Low-Divorce Jobs
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September 24, 2010 9:00 am. Middot; Next ». Takes a simple regression predicting the “divorced” rate (% of once-married folks now divorced or separated) from income, age, gender, and race, and then for 500 different jobs collects a table of its actual divorce rate, the rate predicted by this regression, and the ratio between these two rates. (Yes these stats ignore remarried folks, but they still seem informative.). Before you browse their divorce rate vs. job table. How do you think most folks react?
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Hear 130 Minutes of Charles Bukowski's First-Ever Recorded Readings (1968) | Open Culture
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Hear 130 Minutes of Charles Bukowski’s First-Ever Recorded Readings (1968) – Open Culture. The best free cultural and educational media on the web. Hear 130 Minutes of Charles Bukowski’s First-Ever Recorded Readings (1968). November 24th, 2014 Leave a Comment. Charles Bukowski smoking by Tyrenius. We enjoy the work of Charles Bukowski. Here at Open Culture, but recently we’ve weighted our attention toward his late work. And I mean his. Late work, like the last poem he ever faxed. The weakness was not Gov...
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Leonardo da Vinci's Handwritten Resume (1482) | Open Culture
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume (1482) – Open Culture. The best free cultural and educational media on the web. Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume (1482). January 22nd, 2014 8 Comments. We know that Michelangelo wrote grocery lists. 2 I know how, when a place is besieged, to take the water out of the trenches, and make endless variety of bridges, and covered ways and ladders, and other machines pertaining to such expeditions. 3 If, by reason of the height of the banks, or the strength of the p...
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Overcoming Bias : Risk is Physical
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September 2, 2008 6:00 am. Middot; Next ». His outcome variance. It seems, however, that these different risk concepts are more related than we realized. So if we could get people to exercise more, would they become more risk-loving, want less insurance, make more aggressive investments, and induce faster economic growth? Would this be a good thing? A WordPress rating system. This sounds about right to me. To answer the question, a qualified yes. It would be hard to separate the effect alluded to fro...
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