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03-13 Bank Employee Urges Anonymous to Help Other Bank of America Employees Leak Details on Fraud Anonymous, the hacktivist group known for supporting WikiLeaks and mounting actions in cyberspace in defense of freedom of information and transparency, launched “#BlackMonday” at midnight. Emails between an Anonymous user and an employee with Balboa Insurance, whose work is connected to the operations of Bank of America, were posted. The employee claims to have worked for the company for the last seven years. He writes, “Many of you do not know who Balboa Insurance Group (soon to be rebranded as QBE First by Australian Reinsurance Company QBE according to internal communication sent to all Balboa associates) is, but if you’ve ever had a loan for an automobile, farm equipment, mobile home, or residential or commercial property, we knew you. In fact, we probably charged you money…a lot of money…for insurance you didn’t even need.” Emails from the employee allegedly affirm suspicions that banks like Bank of America have been engaged in rampant fraud. Key Exchange Indicating Fraud

The Neuroscience Of Change—Or How To Reset Your Brain : The World Learn how to rewire your brain by changing how you think through a simple four-step approach. July 07, 2011 The mysteries of the mind and brain are many and complex. Neuroscience, through the magic of technology is just beginning to unravel some of them. Given that my livelihood revolves around creativity, I have become fascinated with neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the mind's ability to change the brain. The issue all of us grapple with is change. My fascination led me to a number of visits to Dr. I’m interested in Dr. 1. The first step is to relabel a given thought, feeling, or behavior as something else. This sounds easy, almost a trite affirmation, like what they give you at one of those weekend long shut-ins where you transform yourself into the someone you always thought you could be. 2. The second step answers the question, “Why do these thoughts coming back?” 3. The third step is where the toughest work is, because it’s the actual changing of behavior. 4.

Brief diversions vastly improve focus, researchers find A new study in the journal Cognition overturns a decades-old theory about the nature of attention and demonstrates that even brief diversions from a task can dramatically improve one's ability to focus on that task for prolonged periods. The study zeroes in on a phenomenon known to anyone who's ever had trouble doing the same task for a long time: After a while, you begin to lose your focus and your performance on the task declines. Some researchers believe that this "vigilance decrement," as they describe it, is the result of a drop in one's "attentional resources," said University of Illinois psychology professor Alejandro Lleras, who led the new study. Lleras had noticed that a similar phenomenon occurs in sensory perception: The brain gradually stops registering a sight, sound or feeling if that stimulus remains constant over time. "Constant stimulation is registered by our brains as unimportant, to the point that the brain erases it from our awareness," Lleras said.

TasteKid | Find similar music, movies, books Expectations speed up conscious perception The human brain works incredibly fast. However, visual impressions are so complex that their processing takes several hundred milliseconds before they enter our consciousness. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main have now shown that this delay may vary in length. When the brain possesses some prior information − that is, when it already knows what it is about to see − conscious recognition occurs faster. Until now, neuroscientists assumed that the processes leading up to conscious perception were rather rigid and that their timing did not vary. On their way from the eye, visual stimuli are analysed in manifold ways by different processing stages in the brain. To investigate this, the scientists showed the participants images with a background of randomly distributed dots on a monitor. Moreover, the measurements of EEG activity produced astonishing results. These results may show that previous EEG studies have been interpreted incorrectly.

HighQ Sidis Archives Homepage The HighQ Community "The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it." - Francois de la Rochefoucauld "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt Go to Mensa International Go to Mega Go to Noesis (the newsletter of Mega) on line Click here to link to Uncommonly Difficult IQ Tests Over 60% of gifted people are introverted compared with 30% of the general population. (Researchers using PET scans examined 18 healthy individuals. Other sources generally cite IQ scores and their labels something like: 85-99 Lower normal 100-114 Upper normal 115-129 Bright 130-144 Gifted 145-159 Highly gifted 160-above Profoundly gifted Common Problems of the Gifted 1) Since so much comes easily to them, they may never acquire the self-discipline necessary to use their gifts to the fullest. 3) Gifted people have trouble learning to suffer fools gladly, or at all. 4) Gifted people tend to become isolated from the rest of humanity. Free

Formula for Change The formula for change was created by David Gleicher while he was working at Arthur D. Little in the early 1960s,[1] and refined by Kathie Dannemiller in the 1980s.[2] This formula provides a model to assess the relative strengths affecting the likely success of organisational change programs. Dannemiller version: D x V x F > R[edit] Three factors must be present for meaningful organizational change to take place. These factors are: D = Dissatisfaction with how things are now; V = Vision of what is possible; F = First, concrete steps that can be taken towards the vision; If the product of these three factors is greater than R = Resistance then change is possible. To ensure a successful change it is necessary to use influence and strategic thinking in order to create vision and identify those crucial, early steps towards it. Attribution Confusion[edit] Gleicher (original) Version: C = (ABD) > X[edit] The original formula, as created by Gleicher and published by Beckhard,[5] is: References[edit]

Dunning–Kruger effect Cognitive bias about one's own skill The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. The Dunning–Kruger effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance. There are disagreements about what causes the Dunning–Kruger effect. There are disagreements about the Dunning–Kruger effect's magnitude and practical consequences. Definition[edit] The Dunning–Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. David Dunning Explanations[edit] [edit] Statistical[edit]

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