Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, blogs, economics, life, media, politics, science, sports, tagged 11 year old murder suspect, celebs, consequences, contingency management, Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Phil, Keith Olbermann, media whores, Octo Mom, ratings, Rush Limbaugh on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, let’s review…
Car crash outside the front window every Friday night… what happens?
Keith Olbermann goes nuclear on an unsuspecting dolt…what happens?
Car crash on 3 corner of Darlington raceway… what happens?
Rush Limbaugh says he hopes the President ‘fails’ in efforts to steer the country… what happens?
The latest, but not the last unfortunately, is Dr. Phil… [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, blogs, economics, finance, government, life, media, new kind of science, religion, research, science, social science, tagged Baloney detection kit, consequences, experimental analysis of behavior, failures, fantasy, fear, financial crisis, life spans, pain, recycled, rhetoric, science, space, status quo, witchcraft on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please run this blog through the Baloney Detection Kit that was published here in the last 90 days. I recommend you do it for every media byte but, a guy off the streets writing about our global financial crisis may need it more than others for obvious reasons.
There is a postulate that states, “People [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, religion, research, science, social science, tagged absolutism, chaos, consequences, human behavior, relative truth, truth, values on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In yet another confounding of the same sitatuion we see played out over and over in thousands of published studies, Seed gives us a report on how moral decisions are contextual.
“No, the results did not surprise us,” says Lindenberg. “What surprised us was the size of the effect.”
This is not unlike the findings from last [...]
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Posted in airplane, analysis of behavior, behavior, computation, decision theory, media, philosophy, quantum mechanics, science, speculation, weather, tagged consequences, purpose, training, chance, pilot, hudson river, Flight 1549, co-pilot, crews, recue, tower communicaiton, intervention, magic, causes on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a Washingtonpost.com article from 1-15-09 that encapsulates the events on the Hudson River in NYC that allowed 155 people to walk away for a ditched water landing in extremely chilly conditions.
(If you don’t like this particular description of events, pick another from the 1032 that were on the web by that evening. [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, brain, information theory, politics, science, social science, tagged authority, Baloney Detection System, binary, binary events, churches, CNN.com, consequences, dumbness, ESPN, evil, Good vs. Evil, Milram's Experiments, NFL Countdown, psychology, religion, research, rules are everywhere, science, words are powerful on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Use your head! Not even the term “wet” is binary.
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Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, politics, tagged accountability, billions, bonuses, consequences, free markets, learning, special interest groups, successful work for the unsuccessful on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By engaging in bailout after bailout, government bureaucrats in both parties perpetuate the system that is not working: special interest groups getting special treatment.
Follow the consequences! By subsidizing failed but well-connected losers with a bailout we collectively are confiscating the necessary resources from productive and successful companies and tax paying members of the economy. [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, social networks, tagged adults, aversive stimuli, boredom, conflicting rules, consequences, contingencies, dolts, escape, lying, mimicry, parenting, reality, reinforcement, rules, truth on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Like a flu virus in a preschool lunch room, the question comes up every 6 months or so as to “Why do children lie?” and “What does it mean?” and “What do you do about it?” The latest incarnation was on CNN/health in a Parenting.com article.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/11/12/why.kids.lie/index.html
There is huge divergence out there on the [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, tagged category errors, common sense, consequences, conterfactuals, life, logic, Madden, NFL, sports, venacular on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whenever an excuse or a wimpy explanation was offered to my Dad for anything adequate or less than adequate he would mumble in an aside… “If-shit-rabbit.” My brother and I went years well into adulthood before coming to know he was expressing exasperation with his unique short-hand version of a counterfactual:
“If the dog had [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, politics, tagged bailout, behavior, complexity, consequences, contingencies, crisis, Dan Ariely, economy, family, habits, loss, options, politics, reactive, vacuum of behavior on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We know that behavior is not simple but there are simple behavioral components that keep getting ignored. Relative to what we all experience in life like conflicts in the Dan Ariely remarks below and in a previous blog on this site.… we recognize his statements on habits, good and bad, etc. Yet there is a second [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, politics, tagged behavior, Christmas, consequences, experience, explained, food, gas, guilt, natural calamity, next time, people, power, security, water on September 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was telling my friend the complexities of hurricane IKE for us here in the outskirts of Houston. He too had the ‘experience’ and was caught not being able to adequately explain what it was like. I am tough enough to ‘enlighten’ in most cases so he wasn’t going to “help” me understand what [...]
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David Crystal, Linguist