Facebook’s experiment on emotional contagion Large scale experiment with questionable ethics!!
Month: June 2014
Competency based training, productivity and performance
Competency based training, productivity and performance. Jason – we should look at this.
Five Labs – scraping Facebook stuff to identify personality “scientifically”
Five Labs. Interesting …
Texting while walking: Doctor warns of distraction risk as student tells of being hit by bus – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
"People need to be aware of the risk – it only takes a split second to be hit by a car."It is just like having alcohol on board, you dont realise what is going on around you, so the phone…
Tracing the Trajectory of Skill Learning With a Very Large Sample of Online Game Players
Tracing the Trajectory of Skill Learning With a Very Large Sample of Online Game Players. Haven’t read this yet, but Steve, Luke, Ignacio – you should find it interesting
Self-Regulation: American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids | New Republic
Self-Regulation: American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids | New Republic. Interesting commentary on self-regulation and how it is “taught” in American (and British) schools. This article questions whether self-regulation is just a fancy name for compliance through brain-washing rather than…
Nudge economics: has push come to shove for a fashionable theory? | Science | The Observer
In an increasingly complex and specialised world, Gigerenzer preaches a gospel of greater simplicity. He suggests that the outcome of decisions of any complexity – a complexity of, say, trying to organise a successful picnic or greater – are impossible…