By Daniel Simons, on December 24th, 2010
In the past few weeks, the blogosphere has been abuzz about the dangers of non-replication and the “decline” effect, triggered by Jonah Lehrer’s interesting piece in the New Yorker (mostly behind a firewall). The central claim in the piece is that initially strong or provocative findings diminish in strength over time. The decline […]
By The Invisible Gorilla, on October 4th, 2010
Silly claims that hands-free texting would somehow make it safe to text while […]
By Daniel Simons, on October 1st, 2010
The final part of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). […]
By Daniel Simons, on September 30th, 2010
The third of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). […]
By Daniel Simons, on July 8th, 2010
Do drivers compensate for distraction? Sometimes, but not when it actually might […]
By Daniel Simons, on June 13th, 2010
A friend referred me to a wonderful case of a lawyer taking advantage of the limits of memory to try to get his client out of a traffic violation. It’s almost hard to believe this actually happened — it’s easier to imagine it happening on a television show as a critical plot twist. After […]
By Daniel Simons, on May 23rd, 2010
Chris and I have a column in Today’s New York Post on what we’ve called the Illusion of Confidence. In the column, we discuss now-classic work by Justin Kruger and David Dunning on the double curse of incompetence: People who are unskilled are also unaware of it. Kruger and Dunning showed that […]
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