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Why Atheists Are Better Prepared for Death Than... →
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Confident dumb people - Boing Boing →
Have you ever noticed how incompetent people are often incredibly confident? Meanwhile, highly-skilled folks underestimate their ability to perform. That’s called the Dunning-Kruger Effect named for Justin Kruger and David Dunning of Cornell University who published their study of the cognitive bias in a 1999 scientific paper. ABC Radio National’s The Science Show recently explored the...
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Atheist Ethicist: Sam Harris: Science and Morality →
Why I’m Not Agnostic « Melliferax →
I’m an atheist. I’m not an agnostic. I’m about to explain why — and this is going to be a very long post, so allow me to apologise beforehand if you fall asleep and end up with a keyboard imprint on your face.
First of all, definitions: By “atheist”, I do not mean “person who thinks they know there are no gods”. An atheist is simply someone who lacks a belief in gods, or who actively believes...
Study Sheds Light on What Makes People Shy |... →
The brains of shy or introverted individuals might actually process the world differently than their more extroverted counterparts, a new study suggests.
About 20 percent of people are born with a personality trait called sensory perception sensitivity (SPS) that can manifest itself as the tendency to be inhibited, or even neuroticism. The trait can be seen in some children who are “slow to...