How you viewed the condition of the country probably determined your vote. If you saw the country as doing OKAY, you probably saw the Ol’ Pussy Grabber as too big of a risk. But if you saw the country has going in the wrong direction, you were tempted to take a chance on the Ol’ Pussy Grabber. What does behavioral economics, loss aversion, and risk seeking tell us about 2018?
Healthcare, taxes, the government, and a lot of life is very complex. How do we make complex choices? Tversky & Kahneman and biases and heuristics shed some light on what the GOP is trying to do to us and how they are doing. RESIST
The debate is here! How much will the debate change the election? The determinants of confidence will influence our interpretation of the performance of the candidates, but what are they? Find out here!
Trump has contaminated all of us in one way or another. Using the halo effect and other heuristics, I explain exactly the kind of contaminate that Trump is. And, there is a long snarky, sarcasticky, and profaney rant about Brock Turner.
Sanders won’t quit! He’s in til the end! Find out what psychology has to say about Bernie’s determination!
Liberal Politics, Media Criticism & General Mayhem
Thoughts about learning ...
Evenhanded insight on political, cultural and scientific affairs
Purveyor of Ideas
Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, sports, science, economics and culture.
Ruminations, ramblings, and rants about narcissism and trauma, politics, human nature, religion, and almost everything else
Autism Without Limits
Processing and recovering from abuse
It’s human to think different
just me and my thoughts
real bipolar I real lost real life
Looking at science in the media, politics, and law.
Exposing Vladimir Putin's War on America
