by Craig Marker | May 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
A recent study in the journal Psychological Science shows the way videos are produced can subtly trick viewers into thinking the confessions are voluntary depending on whether the video focused on the suspect or detective…. Lassiter and colleagues from...
by Craig Marker | May 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
In the May 2007 Discover magazine there is a short article titled “Urban Unplanning”. It describes how taking away street signs may actually make people drive more safely. The idea is based on the risk compensation effect. Here is a quote from the...
by Craig Marker | May 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Mahalanobis Blog:Success breeds its own failure in creative work because a successful writer or director gets less needed criticism, which creates self-indulgent, rambling works where the author doesn’t tell us what’s new, true and...
by Craig Marker | May 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
The New York Times has an article looking at the rate at which white referees call fouls on black players (and black referees call fouls on white players). an excerpt from the Mahalonobis Blog: The article by Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers, Racial Discrimination...
by Craig Marker | May 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Newsweek:it’s hard to grasp how much of science is subjective, and especially how much leeway there is in choosing how to conduct a study. No one is alleging that scientists stack the deck on purpose. Let’s just say that depending on how...
by Craig Marker | Apr 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
From the Mahalonobis Blog:Nicola Clayton et al. sought to tease apart scrub-jays’ momentary desires from their planning for future needs. They let the birds eat as much of one food as they wanted, exploiting a condition called specific satiety—once the birds are...
