Sunday, March 10, 2019

Have Humans Evolved to Be Cheaters? Is it something general? Have other monogamous species did the same?

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Have Humans Evolved to Be Cheaters? Nadia Nooreyezdan. The Swaddle, Mar 10, 2019. https://theswaddle.com/have-humans-evolved-to-be-cheaters/...

Bad data, bad decisions... 9 years later after Obamacare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' actuaries find that CBO numbers were wildly off

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9 Years After Obamacare Passed, Agency Finds Numbers Were Wildly Off. Jarrett Stepman. The Daily Signal, Feb 22, 2019. https://www.dailysign...

Concept of a Love for Cash is introduced: Physical money worship & strong emotional attachment to it; next to fear of technology, is one of the most important reasons for the resistance to cashless banking

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Banking, Unbanking, and New Banking. Dominika Maison. The Psychology of Financial Consumer Behavior pp 185-208, https://link.springer.com/ch...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Los Angeles county: Streetcars' influence, visible in current urban density, has not dissipated in the 60 years since the streetcar's removal; mutually reinforcing pathways of regulation & agglomerative clustering

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Vestiges of Transit: Urban Persistence at a Micro Scale. Leah Brooks and Byron Lutz. Review of Economics and Statistics, March 04, 2019. htt...

Bias Blind Spot: They rated themselves lower than others in both susceptibility to biases & personal shortcomings; belief in free will was positively associated with the susceptibility to better than average effect

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Agency and self-other asymmetries in perceived bias and shortcomings: Replications of the Bias Blind Spot and extensions linking to free wil...