December 2010
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“And this is why the decline effect is so troubling. Not because it reveals the...”
– Jonah Leher (whose name you might recognize from Radiolab) in The Truth Wears Off for The New Yorker.
Worth a read, re-read, and good long ponder.
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Things I Didn't Know: #013 The Hawthorne Effect
The Hawthorne effect is a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify an aspect of their behavior being experimentally measured simply in response to the fact that they are being studied…
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Of course I knew this existed, but I didn’t know the name. Now I know.
“I don’t see this as therapy. I’m proactive. These people are action...”
– Brad Stand
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“Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in...”
– Justice Hugo Black in the Supreme Court ruling in New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).
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State of the Union
An optimist could think that the imminent failure of the American Experiment as presaged by actions of the Federal Government over the last decade – legal gymnastics to justify torture, violation of international law, violation of the law of war, widespread violation of the rights of individuals in the name of public safety against the outcry of the governed, and working faster to punish the press...
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