Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

Cornell University Psychology professors Justin Kruger and David Dunning wrote in the abstract to their “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments” (1999, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77 (6), pp. 1121-1134):
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and [...]

Multiculturalism outside of the classroom is not about dancing bunnies, singing unicorns, and lollipop fountains, but about knowing when to push back and how hard. It is also knowing when to anticipate that the other party is going to feel that you have initiated the confrontation.
In some cultures arguing is a normal part of the [...]

Temple Grandin made a very interesting TED presentation on different ways of thinking, and how schools are failing children who do not fit the norm.

“Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run from those who have found it.” —Vaclav Havel
When we compress complex issues into one-dimensional spectra — left vs right, religious vs atheist, conservative vs liberal, etc. — we end up talking at cross-purposes, often with ourselves.
Part of the problem is the habit of thought [...]

EconStories.tv looks like it could become a brilliant site for entertaining introductions to economics.
Invest accordingly.
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Loyola University physics professor Joseph Ganem addresses a very important shortcoming of the mathematics education that too many pupils receive in US schools.
His thesis boils down to three main points:

Many mathematics teachers conflate difficulty with rigor. In the context of mathematics, to be rigorous is to be inflexibly accurate. One can be rigorous [...]

CNN reports, “[E]xperts [in China] are hoping to revolutionize child-rearing with the help of science. About 30 children aged 3 to 12 years old and their parents are participating in a new program that uses DNA testing to identify genetic gifts and predict the future.”
“When Director [of the Chongqing Children's Palace] Zhao Mingyou first heard [...]

WLWT.com reports on a teacher in Kentucky, USA, who is charged with having sex with a pupil, whom she claims not to know.

After hearing rumors about her alleged tryst, the accused “went to the police station to take a polygraph test, but instead was arrested, and within days she was suspended and fired.”
According to the [...]

David P. Goldman, writing under the nom de blog ‘Spengler’ is an insightful student of big-picture issues affecting the world economy. Even if one disagrees with some of his subjective value judgments, his analysis of the effects of demographics on economics, and subsequently on financial and entrepreneurial decision making, is a reminder that one [...]

Kids today! pft.
This was featured on Slashdot recently: “15 year old Texan Javier Fernández-Han… developed a fully featured algae-powered energy system that combines a dozen new and existing technologies to treat waste, produce methane and bio-oil for fuel, produce food for humans and livestock, sequester greenhouse gases, and produce oxygen.”
So, take that, Vineet Nayar, [...]