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Use anchoring to lose years off your age

It is well known in psychology that the way a question is asked can strongly influence the answer. For example, if you spin a random number wheel and later have people guess the proportion of United Nations countries that are African, their answers closely follow the number the wheel landed ...

Bristol vs Sarah

Now that we now that Sarah Palin didn’t fake her pregnancy and Bristol Palin is carrying Obama’s baby let’s talk about something else,

Assume that:

A = Has Down syndrome
B = Mother is between 40-44 years old
C = Mother is between 15-19 years old
Total Births = 4,265 ...







Olympic Efficiency


Economics and Olympics: An Efficiency Analysis[pdf]

Many Eyes vs. Google Charts

Two charts comparing Many Eyes and Google Charts:

Many Eyes


Google Charts
You can get the data for the chart here Although Many Eyes has more chart types (most of which output chart junk) its charts lack the visual appeal of Google Charts, plus Many Eyes is built with Java ...




Time is relative

Usain Bolt just won the gold medal in the 100m with a world record time of 9.69. What a difference 0.01 of a second makes…

Olympics Day 8 - Athletics
The amazing Jamaican, who was running only his 11th ever race at the distance, smashed his own world record by 0.03 - and ...




Palabras que aparecen frecuentemente en las descripciones de mujeres



La gráfica es de las 150 palabras más comunes que aparecen en las descripciones de 3313 mujeres de 18 a 25 años que viven en la Ciudad de México y desean conocer hombres en un sitio web popular en México. La gráfica fue hecha con wordle.net

Implicit Association Test for Presidential Candidates

Who do I unconsciously want to vote for? The Implicit Association Test was designed to uncover your implicit, less conscious preferences. It shows you pictures of Obama, The One Who Must Not Be Named and McCain, which you are then asked to match with positive or negative words. The better ...

Fake being a wine snob

This is so true. Wine drinkers are such snobs. I wish I could fake it good enough to get paid for it instead of just winning bottle foil cutters at wine tastings for saying stuff like “the dry woody finish of the wine indicates it was stored in oak barrels…”

An iPhone contract is $1261 dollars more expensive in Mexico!


*The AT&T version includes a 5 dollar per month 200 SMS plan **All phone prices are for the 8GB version The Telcel versions of the iPhone include mediocre data plans restricted to a few MBs which you’ll use up once you access Google Maps a couple of times ...

The Birds

Adult male and female Robins dive bombing my fat cat

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