The following extract was written for the Daily Telegraph, a right-wing publication, with associated agenda. Nonetheless, Mr. Warner has a point. “There are some Europeans who believe that the UK’s disruptive influence was at the root of all the EU’s problems, and that they can now revert to business as usual. This is a huge …
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We went to a concert the other night. Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were featured. Nowadays, if you have them in the program you also need a modern composer as well. In this case the piece was a Trombone Concerto (I won’t mention the name of the very experienced composer for reasons of tact. I’m sure the …
Trump’s first employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the economy has added 227,000 jobs. The unemployment rate is currently 4.8 percent. This is close to full employment. (Yes, thank you, Obama. Think of the mess he inherited). So when the new Administration “supercharges” the economy with big handouts to the already super-rich, …
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. The phenomenon was first observed in a series of experiments by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the department of psychology at Cornell University in 1999. They attributed this …
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On this blog we have discussed the power of the college and university administrators and the corresponding loss of power of the academics and university workers. In healthcare there has been a similar revolution, introduced under the guise of unquestioned ‘best practice’. It is seldom discussed or debated. The advent of neoliberalism (or Thatcherism) in …
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