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Date: February 26, 2014 at 11:27:35
From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: a list of named effects (many in the "hard" sciences) |
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_effects |
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Date: February 26, 2014 at 11:44:31
From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: and some interesting ones in the "softer" sciences |
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority |
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"Illusory superiority is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate their positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative qualities, relative to others."
"Illusory superiority is often referred to as the above average effect."
"Other terms include ... the Lake Wobegon effect (named after Garrison Keillor's fictional town where 'all the children are above average')."
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Date: February 26, 2014 at 11:49:11
From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: the "Coolidge effect" is interesting |
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect |
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"Behavioral endocrinologist Frank A. Beach first mentioned the term 'Coolidge effect' in publication in 1955, crediting one of his students with suggesting the term at a psychology conference."
"... an old joke about Calvin Coolidge when he was President ... The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, 'Dozens of times each day.' Mrs. Coolidge said, 'Tell that to the President when he comes by.' Upon being told, President asked, 'Same hen every time?' The reply was, 'Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time.' President: 'Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.'"
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