If this surprises you, it means you are a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene or maybe TheDonald.
Of what am I talking? A study completed by Drs. Nicholas Camp (Michigan), Rob Voigt (Northwestern), with Dan Jurafsky and Jennifer Eberhardt (both from Stanford), published as “The Thin Blue Waveform: Racial Disparities in Officer Prosody Undermine Institutional Trust in the Police”, in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Continue reading Police Prejudice is Real
This is going to be a bit depressing. We always thought we could teach people all sorts of things. But, four academics (3 from Princeton, 1 from Columbia, but one of the Princeton profs is also at the Hebrew University) just burst that bubble.
Continue reading We’ve been wrong all these years
Before TheDonald ever ran for president, psychologists and behavioral scientists identified the illusory truth effect. (One of the first discussions was back in 1977 by Lynn Hasher, David Goldstein, and Thomas Toppino [Frequency and the conference of referential validity].)
Continue reading Illusory Truth Effect
I hadn’t really thought about this. Probably because I haven’t routinely ridden the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in some 50 years. (And, the last time I took a random trip on the carrier was some 20 years ago.)
The year is almost half- over. And, if you’ve been like many folks during the pandemic and have started a business, I certainly hope you’ve been following a few basic rules.
Continue reading Basic Biz Rules
Back in 1958, Bank of America invented a new device- the consumer credit card. Called- whaddayathink?- the BankAmericard. Over the next dozen years, it managed to get other banks to join in their offering. And over those 12 years, these banks mass mailed credit cards to folks in zip codes they thought would make them money from the fees they charged for using credit.
Continue reading Credit card mania?
Y’all remember when I told you about the hypothesis (and testing) that Dr. Andreas Greinacher (University of Griefswald) posed about the blood clots developed from the J&J and Astra-Zeneca vaccines? His data indicated that the clots formed when proteins in the vaccine create reactions in the subject’s blood supply. (They bonded to PF4- platelet factor 4.)
Continue reading Nailing down the cause of those blood clots
PPP. Paycheck Protection Program. It saved many a small business from extinction last year. Our firm was entitled to obtain one- but we weren’t going to go extinct without it. But, I can guarantee that some of our clients would- how do you think a boutique shop at the airport would survive when we all stopped flying for a year? Or, a physical fitness (for kids) system would do when we all stayed away from gyms? Even a consulting firm who’s business was entirely overseas- and could no longer visit its clients? Not to mention the myriad of hospitality firms (hotels, restaurants) that were forced to close.
Continue reading Highway Robbery?
Whether you are Fortune 500, mid-size, growing firm, or a Fortune Wannabe, talking about (but not necessarily effecting) stakeholder capitalism is the current vogue.
Continue reading How do we focus on stakeholder capitalism?
So, let’s stop the BS. Let’s think about our history. Real history- not the alt-news so many folks seem to adore.
Continue reading A Jab Will Do Ya!