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101 delightfully original illustrated tales in verse

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Undue Celebration

Sport is good at throwing up very public examples of the human brain in action. The recently ended World Cup … More

Confirmation Bias, England, FIFA, football, Gareth Southgate, Graeme Souness, halo effect, politics, schemata, sports, World Cup

Mutually assured antagonism

A visitor from America this week obligingly bore out the point I made in an earlier blog about the mutual … More

Bremainers, Confirmation Bias, cormorants, democracy, Donald Trump, Jonathan Swift, Lilliputians, Matthew Parris, Mutually assured antagonism, neuron, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, Political Correctness, politics, Two Minds Made Up, White Supremicism

An assertive ignoramus

In my last post I mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect, whereby those least competent at a task tend to rate themselves … More

Ayn Rand, Bertrand Russell, bias, Brexit, Dunning-Kruger effect, Einstein, politics, Presidential race

Conformity

The Fable featured on the Sample page of this site is the first in the collection: ‘The Compliant Antelope’. In … More

bias, brain, compliant antelope, conformity, fables, old bunyard's, opinion polls, philosophick, politics, presidential debate, psychology, referees, Solomon Asch
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