Guest Post
My post for the week is aaaaaaaall the way over at the Sunlight Foundation blog.
#re-posts
5 posts
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Obama and the Fundamental Attribution Error
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →The transition from Bush to Obama has been a strange one for me. There is a certain ease to opposing someone whose ideology is so different from yours. There is no need to be subtle, to try and tease apart where things are going wrong - you know why they are doing this thing that you hate: because they don't value what you value.
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Rotten Apples & Bad Barrels
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →When it comes to social psychology, everyone seems to know two names: Milgram and Zimbardo. It's funny, because they both studied essentially the same thing - under what circumstances otherwise normal, compassionate people will act to hurt others.
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Human Test Subjects
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Last night, after much fun during the day, Orli, Russ, Keith, Cora and I sat down to play Morton's List. Now, for those of you who've never heard of this game, it's basically a list of hundreds of different things to do, and you roll a set of dice to randomly select your task for the evening. The trick to the game is that you can't back out, or switch to another task, unless it's physically impossible to complete the first one. The tasks are very varied - the last two times we played we got "relax" and "protest something".
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →With a subject as complex and influential as Alan Turing, how could this biography fail to be fascinating? The premise of the book is an examination of Turing as an outsider, someone prone to working alone, a trait which helped him come up with outside-the-box ideas of universal machines. It explores Turing's deep-seated sense of isolation and to what extent it was caused by his position as an unashamed but closeted gay man and how he feared his homosexuality would be used to discredit his ideas. As Turing once wrote in a syllogism: