I’m currently compiling a glossary of the technical terms for the 101 psychological phenomena described in ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’.…
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No change, please; we’re human
Last time, I paid tribute to the work of Kahneman and Tversky. Let me now give an example of their…
And Now For Something Completely Different
To return for a moment to my point about objectivity existing only in the mind of the beholder: it amused…
Arrival
As it’s Christmas Day, I thought I should choose an appropriate topic, but one that’s unlikely to give too much…
Credit where it’s due
When Old Bunyard was Young Bunyard, Britain still had a shared culture; and that shared culture was mostly sustained from…
Homo sapiens? Really?
When I asked someone who’d enjoyed reading the book whether she’d any negatives to mention, she said, “No – except…
Pot, kettle, black
There’s a mildly amusing post script to my last post. I thought my American visitor would know why the US…
Mutually assured antagonism
A visitor from America this week obligingly bore out the point I made in an earlier blog about the mutual…
Of babies and bathwater
The latest addition to the ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’ channel on YouTube is number 71, ‘The Snub-Nosed Tapir’: see https://youtu.be/lPczUNgKztE.…
An assertive ignoramus
In my last post I mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect, whereby those least competent at a task tend to rate themselves…
