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NYC - New York in Last Place in Happiness Rating - NYTimes.com

  • On the smiley scale, New York landed on the bottom.
  • At least New Yorkers can take comfort in knowing that their immediate neighbors in Connecticut (No. 50) and New Jersey (No. 49) are not appreciably happier
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22 Dec 09

Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up | Magazine

  • we carefully edit our reality, searching for evidence that confirms what we already believe. Although we pretend we’re empiricists — our views dictated by nothing but the facts — we’re actually blinkered, especially when it comes to information that contradicts our theories. The problem with science, then, isn’t that most experiments fail — it’s that most failures are ignored.
  • the Nobel Prize for physics.
    • Those awarding this prize (in whatever category) suffer from same problem of hidden bias. - on 2009-12-22
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