articles of interest Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Nov 29 2008 01:45:20
via kotaku only 20 of games that begin production will ever finish. of those 20 that are finished and released to the market only 20 of them will ever realize a significant profit. id be surprised if these stats were significantly different five years ago.
during my igda leadership forum lecture i mentioned that a wide variety of studies had called int...... [Show More]
money surprisingly difficult to spend ratio nally .
photo courtesy of richseattle via flickr.
despite all the finance articles that lay out the science of investing in a dry and logical manner personal spending remains an emotional and messy fair .
a number of books have hit the market recently which explain how when it comes to money people throw logic out the window. in...... [Show More]
...csonce we understand where we are weak or wrong we can try to fix it and build a better world. mg thank you dan readers if you would like to learn more about behavioral economics go to www.predic tablyirrat ional.com . as always any comments reflections or ideas you have will be much appreciated....... [Show More]
waarom moeilijk doen als het ook gemakkelijk kan hier een overzicht van alle links uit quest december 2008.aa
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i started this blog soon after the age of engagement morphed into a flood ofa
ideas on how we can accomplish more together.a here821 7s the books ive mentioned and authors i have interviewed.a crowdsourcing a jeff howe a here comes everybody a claya a shirky a groundswell a charlene
ali a emergence a steven johnson a si...... [Show More]
dan ariely is the bestselling author of predictably irrational the powerful forces that shape our nature . along with being one of the top behavioral economists in the world his book was just named the 1 best business book of 2008 by amazon.com .
heres a brief description of predictably irrational from publishers weekly
irrational behavior is a part of...... [Show More]
the jastrow illusion Post Source: www.braintraining101.com Posted: Nov 05 2008 11:39:32
which of these objects is bigger the answer may surprise you.
the two objects are actually identical even though the bottom one looks larger. this is an optical effect called the jastrow illusion .
click here to watch an animation of this illusion .
you can also check out this short video for a demonstration.
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i wrote last week about the role of incentives in online communities and specifically how they can lead to behaviours that you might not want. in the post i give an example from dan ariely a behavioural economist at mit that shows why incentives can breed unintended behaviours. today i came across his youtube channel and thought i would post his video explaining just this.
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jake is about to chip onto the green at his local golf course when a long funeral procession passes by.
from predictably irrational a really fascinating blog on the science of rationality.
he stops in mid swing doffs his cap closes his eyes and bows in prayer. his playing companion is deeply impressed. thats the most thoughtful and touching thing ive ever seen he says. ja...... [Show More]
theres a debate to be had in the world of online communities especially in the world of online research communities about how we incentivise people to take part. at freshnetworks in the online research communities that we build and manage for clients we tend not to incentivise at least not in the traditional way that we see in market research. so for a community we ran earlier this...... [Show More]
hace unas semanas escuchando un podcast escucha una recomendacian de un libro que me hizo dudarlo.
ahora estoy seguro de que no soy salo yo quien toma mis decisiones.
debido a que no tengo tiempo en estos daas para leer y que lo que escucha del libro predictably irrational prometaa mucho decida comprarlo enaaudible.com.
el sitio maneja audiolibros desde hace 10 aaos. en estado...... [Show More]
if you dont already know about behavioural economics im going to give youaa choice either become familiarawith it starting now by reading the rest of this post or stop readingaand never ever come back to this blog again. iamean it ahave a niceaconfused andamisle dalife.a
if you already know this stuff were chill. maybe youasawa david brooks...... [Show More]
dzyd julia flipping through the pages of this months o magazine i was shocked to read gabrielle leblancs worth a read column. could it be that macolm gladwells new book outliers which examines extraordinary achievers does not include a single woman bill gates mozart robert oppenheimer and the beatles are among gladwells subjects. but what about vi...... [Show More]
sometimes the best way to learn something is to bang your head against a problem until it hurts. its not fun and youll probably look stupid but youll never forget the lesson. kind of like homer simpson but hopefully smarter. doh
here are a few marketing truths ive learned the hard wayby banging my head on them repeatedly over the years
1. mark...... [Show More]
the alternate title of this post is the british pop culture invasion.
ah to make up for the lack of recommendations for the past few weeks here are three books i downloaded with my subscription from audible. the first is a diggnation recommendation from kevin rose titled predictably irrational . i got this version as it was cheaper on audio than it was on the shelf ...... [Show More]
the iphone is not just a device it is an entire business design combining the device price and application innovation market. if blackberry wants to capture share in this fastgrowing market smart phones are growing at about four times the rate of regular phones they need to combat iphone at each level of the business design. so far they have a cool new device and they are talki...... [Show More]
nachdem durch die presse und anderen medien ja breit durch ist dass franaoise barrasinoussi und luc montagnier far ihre arbeiten zu hiv aids den medizinnobelpreis 2008 zugesprochen bekommen haben bleibt vielleicht eine erganzung erwahnenswert der preistrager eines alternativen medizinno belpreises
den iga nobel prize verliehen von improba...... [Show More]
sin duda dan ariely es merecedor de premios. ver cmo una investigacin tuya recibe el premio ignobel puede hacerte creer en desdoro pero su investigacin que encontr que los medicamentos falsos caros son ms efectivos que los medicamentos falsos baratos se enmarca en una linea de investigaciones muy seria sobre psicologia del consumo en la universidad de duke. merece la pena echarle un vist...... [Show More]
tous les ans a cette apoque depuis 1991 sont remis les prix ig nobel a des chercheurs maritants pour couronner leurs travaux hilarants dasopilants sidarants dacoiffants abouriffants le critare officiel nest pas labsence de sarieux bien au contraire le jury de la revue annals of improbable research traque les rasultats scientifiques aqui font rire puis ...... [Show More]
predictably irrational Post Source: polypyloctomy.24kblogs.com Posted: Oct 04 2008 00:28:43
in his recent book predictably irrational dan ariely challenges our assumptions about the rationality of our decisionmaking and delves into the behavioral economics underlying our poor choices. perception and expectation he argues exert undue influence on important spheres of our lives.
the news this week is replete with examples of this phenomenon. first we have the financial system bail...... [Show More]
in a series of articles this month on the neuroscience of change scientific american explores how randomness rules our world and why we cannot see it . the oneline take away from this article for me is this embrace the random and improve our skills in decision making by removing some of the biases that lead to poor judgments.
if you like this topic you might also enjoy predictably irrationa...... [Show More]
ig nobel 2008 Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Oct 03 2008 23:07:00
ahir a la nit es va fer la cerimania de lliurament dels premis ig nobel 2008 que guardona els experiments i descobriments mas estapids inversemblants de lany. a improbable research la web oficial dels premis en teniu la llista completa pera alguns dels mas curiosos per dirho dalguna manera san aquests premi ig de...... [Show More]
por fin se han premiado los principales avances cientificos del aao. los pongo a continuacian los que me han parecido mas transcendentes por su repercusian social y en algunos casos incluso cientafica premio de quamica al equipo de sharee a. umpierre universidad de puerto rico por descubrir que la cocacola es un eficaz espermicida y al equipo de chuangye hong universi...... [Show More]
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