Tag Archives: consequences

Dr. Phil and ‘what’s her name’ competes with Entertainment Tonight and a train wreck!

Posted on February 26, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Darwin and experimental analysis of the behavior of markets

Posted on February 11, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Chaos begets Chaos? aka Behavior Selection by Consequences

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

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. … Continue reading →

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Determined but unpredictable Hudson River landing

Posted on January 16, 2009 by

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 … Continue reading →

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CNN and Evil – Snivil…

Posted on December 19, 2008 by

Use your head! Not even the term “wet” is binary. Continue reading →

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Bailouts support bad behavior… Don’t do it!

Posted on November 26, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Why kids lie… The TRUTH can finally be told…

Posted on November 13, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Conterfactuals Continued…

Posted on October 27, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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But wait Dan Ariely, there’s more…

Posted on October 7, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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IKE – The Houston Experience

Posted on September 19, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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