You have to earn 2.5x as much to be as happy working for someone else as you would be working for yourself.
il Dhingra posted these two quotes from Malcolm Gladwell's new article in The New Yorker, "How to succeed as an entrepreneur": This is consistent with the one undisputed finding in all the research on entrepreneurship: people who work for themselves are far happier than the rest of us. Shane says that the average person would have to earn two and a half times as much to be as happy working for someone else as he would be working for himself.…
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Why we can’t always find what we’re looking for (and sometimes find what isn’t there):
en people look for things that are rare, they aren't all that good at finding them. And it turns out that the reverse is also true: When people look for something common, they will often think they see it even when it isn't there. A new report published online on January 14th in Current Biology, offers new insight into why this happens and may suggest some simple methods to help airport security personnel looking for weapons and radiologists looking for…
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Why Fondness Makes Us Poor Judges, But Dislike Is Spot-on:
w good are we at guessing other people's likes and dislikes? Ever bring a favorite dish to a potluck -- only to watch it go uneaten? Or receive an unwelcome shock when a cherished product is discontinued for lack of sales? People have the tendency to assume the whole world likes what we like, reveals new research from the June 2008 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. However, we don't generalize the same way when it comes to things…
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Everything you think you know about the effects of birth order is wrong. Here’s what’s right:
til very recently there were no convincing findings that linked birth order to personality or behavior. Our common perception that birth order matters was written off as an example of our well-established tendency to remember and accept evidence that supports our pet theories while readily forgetting or overlooking that which does not. But two studies from the past three years finally found measurable effects: our position in the family does indeed affect both our IQ and our personality... And: In…
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The quickest way to tell if someone is cheating on their taxes:
love the Radiolab podcast. Today I listened to an excellent episode that introduced me to a principle of mathematics I was unfamiliar with: Benford's law. Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading…
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Can you tell if someone is lying by their handwriting?
new study adds “writing with large strokes and applying high pressure on paper” to the list of telltale signs that someone might be lying. Researchers at Haifa University in Israel could tell whether or not students were writing the truth by analyzing these physical properties of their handwriting. Lying requires more cognitive resources than being truthful, says lead author Gil Luria. “You need to invent a story, make sure not to contradict yourself, et cetera.” Any task done simultaneously,…
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The Secrets of Einstein’s Brain (Video):
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How much football is in a football game?:
ere's very little actual football in a football game. via WSJ.com According to a Wall study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes. In other words, if you tally up everything that happens between the time the ball is snapped and the play is whistled dead by the officials, there's barely enough time to prepare…
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