Cognizing and offloading Cognitive Load
adminIn linguistincs and psychology we talk about the cognitive load of any task. A task that requires calculation or analysis has a larger cognitive load. A task in a foreign…
The Ellsberg Paradox
Mark Frauenfelder over at BoingBoing is reading Gregory Bern's Iconoclast. He talks about the Ellsberg Paradox. Read his description of aversion to ambiguity. Which one would you choose?
Utterly Cynical GOP
Saw this first on Digg, where the GOP is trying to use foreclosure roles in Michigan to deny people the vote. How sadly, sinisterly ironic is this. Deregulate the mortgage…
Woes on Wall Street, Black Swans
I woke up this morning and opened my browser, and found the Dow down 500 points, to less than 11,000. Lehman Brothers is filing for protection against bankruptcy (Chapter 11,…
Numbers of Words in WSJ
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has a column devoted to statistics called The Numbers Guy by Carl Bialik, which recently talked about words. Making Every Word Count is an update…