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What I learnt from Stock Market about the Psychology of the Crowd and how it also applies to Politics

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Hearing What they Want to Hear – Seeing What they Want to See: this is called Preferential Bias. Once novice traders have entered a trade they will distort additional information to support their point... published 13 months ago

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Do people really UNDERSTAND what they read or watch

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On a forum I posted the link to Aaron Russo's Video Interview. The answer I got is "That's what people can do.... for money/power." I'm desperate because that's a stereotyped answer which shows that people... published 14 months ago

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Can animals do abstract thinking ?

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In a research article, it has been concluded that baboons can think abstractly, in the first study to show that animal shares a central aspect of human. But reading the article, it is a rather primitive... published 14 months ago

6 comments    education war science

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Immanuel Kant: the Philosopher of the Enlightment

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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher. He was baptized as 'Emanuel' but later changed his name to 'Immanuel' after he learned Hebrew. Kant is regarded as one of the most... published 8 months ago

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