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Misleading money-saving claims help no one | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free
A 20% saving on the £50bn council procurement budget would be awesome … but this wasn't it.
IN GENERAL, people are pretty good at differentiating between the quick and the dead.
Psychology: How dead is dead?
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How the Mind Counteracts Offensive Ideas
People react to ideas they find offensive by reasserting familiar structures of meaning.
Is Our Definition of "Happiness" Extrovert-centric?
The body of research connecting extroversion and happiness kinda bums me out. One study out of Wake Forest University even tells us that people are happier, including introverts , when we like extroverts. For this research, subjects completed a standard measure of the Big Five personality traits.September has come around again, and with it a new influx of students into Edinburgh. I like the sudden hustle and bustle of the university, even if all the lecturing staff seem completely stressed out at the moment!
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