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In an experiment published in 1998, people valued 7 ounces of ice cream more highly than 8 when each serving was judged separately??? the smaller portion overflowed a 5-ounce cup, while the larger serving of the same ice cream sat below the rim of a 10-ounce cup.
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (906+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown An overflowing small cup attracted a higher stated valuation than a larger underfilled serving when judged alone. Direct comparison reversed the result, and later research tested its limits. A generous-looking serving can contain less ice cream....
Choose Simplicity Over Artificiality
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (475+ words) Silicon Canals Choose simplicity over artificiality is the sort of maxim that sounds like taste dressed up as wisdom, the kind of thing said by people who have decided that plain is virtuous and polish is suspect. Treated that way…...
At Harvard, men paid to assemble Lego Bionicle models built an average of 10.6 when their finished work stayed on the desk??? but only 7.2 when the experimenter dismantled it as they worked, handing back the same plastic pieces to be built again.
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (855+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown A small Harvard experiment found that men built more Lego models when their finished work remained intact. The result raises a precise question about effort and visible progress. At Harvard, a small experiment gave men a…...
Learning in the age of information: how access counterfeits understanding, and how to tell knowledge from wisdom
1+ week, 4+ day ago (549+ words) Silicon Canals We have quietly collapsed three things that used to be easier to tell apart: information, knowledge, and wisdom. The age of information has delivered an almost violent abundance of the first, more facts, papers, explainers and answers than…...
Filipinos call it gigil: the urge to clench your hands or squeeze something because it is almost unbearably cute??? Yale psychologists only began experimentally studying the same strange response in 2012, eventually describing it as???cute aggression"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (932+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. The urge to pinch, squeeze, or bite something precious turns out to be universal—and scientists still don't fully understand why tenderness triggers aggression. My grandmother greeted…...
Psychology says people who attend church regularly and still struggle to live by their beliefs aren't necessarily hypocrites??? researchers call it the intention-behavior gap, the space between what we sincerely value and what we actually do
1+ week, 5+ day ago (603+ words) Daniel Moran is a writer at Silicon Canals covering technology, psychology, and culture. The gap between sincere belief and actual behavior isn't moral failure—it's a universal human trait that even the most devout can't escape. My grandmother went to…...
In a computer model of 1,000 fictional 40-year careers, the most highly talented individuals reached the top in only 3% of simulations. Extreme success usually went to moderately talented people who encountered an exceptional run of luck.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1455+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown A 40-year computer model shows how talent can improve average outcomes while rare, compounding runs of luck still decide who reaches the very top. Success stories become cleaner in hindsight. The uncertain launch becomes a master…...
SoftBank is putting $200 million into the excavator-automation startup Gravis Robotics, whose headline productivity figure was stated two different ways on announcement day, with no published method behind either version
2+ week, 4+ day ago (402+ words) Edited by Christy Suriadi Gravis says its retrofit kits deliver "up to a 30% boost" against peak manual operation. It also told Inc. the machines have delivered "about 30 percent on multiple projects" against human-operated equipment. The specialist Inc. asked wants to…...
A meta-analysis of 138 experiments found that tracking progress significantly improves goal achievement??? and the effect becomes stronger when that progress is recorded or made visible to someone else. Sometimes the simplest productivity system is anoth
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1086+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown A review of 138 randomised studies found that progress monitoring improved goal attainment, especially when results were recorded and reported. Goals usually begin in the future tense: finish the proposal, save the deposit, train three times a…...
Across 25 experiments, people told to imagine another person's perspective became less accurate about what that person thought, not more, while people who were simply allowed to ask them got substantially better
4+ week, 16+ hour ago (945+ words) Edited by Graeme Brown Empathy's most popular trick—imagining yourself in someone else's shoes—backfired spectacularly in 25 studies; simply asking them what they thought worked far better. The standard item on every list of this kind is to put yourself…...