How to tell if Fact Checkers have a bias
When Snopes introduced bias into their fact checking, it’s no longer fact checking. It’s just another opinion. Here’s how you can tell.
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When to Rely on Experts
Stephen Hawking is an amazing physicist. His incredible career spans theoretical work in black holes, quantum gravity, and the beginning of the universe. He wrote a popular physics book called A Brief History of Time, which sits on my bookshelf. Today, he currently works as the Director of Research at […]
The Only Reason to Get Out of Bed
“In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose—a productive purpose.” ~ Ayn Rand, Playboy Interview Every morning, I get out of bed. It may seem like a small, innocuous event. Yet that one small act is profound. I could just lie there, mind […]
Review: Your Brain at Work by David Rock 1
These days there’s no shortage of things to worry about, events to plan, places to go, things to do, and we start it all again the next day. At the end of the day we are exhausted, sometimes swearing we were so busy we couldn’t get anything done! Our brain […]
Overcoming the hard decisions – what to do
The hardest decision I ever had to make came about in the summer of 2007. At the time, I was a PhD student at Auburn University, working as a graduate assistant teaching 2 courses a year. I was just entering the job market and hunting furiously for a position for […]
SMART Goals and Philosophy 1
In Why Businessmen Need Philosophy, Dr. Harry Binswanger identifies the ultimate CEO in your life is your philosophy. What does that mean in practice? Take goal-setting. Based on what I understand about philosophy, I would suspect that an ideal approach to goal-setting would be based on your values – clearly identified, objectively defined, and do not contradict reality. […]
Repubs say Romney, Dems say Obama. What do they both get wrong?
You may have noticed lately how all the Republican pundits say Romney will win and all the Democratic pundits say Obama will win. Don’t they see the same data? They can’t both be right. Can they both be wrong? In a word, yes! How? Confirmation bias. According to Science Daily, confirmation […]
3 Keys to Picking a Career
All things being equal most of us want more money. All things being equal most of us want a career that brings immense personal satisfaction. What if those two things do not align? What if the career that you would love to pursue makes it extremely difficult to make money. Some common […]
2500 Reasons for Reason
My wife and I recently took a 3,000 mile road trip, and we became interested in a new car. We did not fall in love with the idea of a new car, but we thought it would be worth examining possibilities. When we arrived home from vacation, we found a […]