say what you do ... do what you say
A December Pew Survey confirms that people increasingly say they turn more to the Internet than newspapers for news. What the report doesn’t tell us is the comparative quantity, quality, and frequency of online news reading. In short, are non-newspaper readers, particularly young people, as factually knowledgeable about current affairs as those who consume newspapers daily?
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Loading ... Speaking at TED on the marketing of an idea, Seth Godin proposed three questions to verify change:
1. Who are you upsetting?
2. Who are you connecting?
3. Who are you leading?
Our memory system, says cognitive psychologist Gary Marcus, is “context-dependent rather than location-addressable,” which is how computers “remember.” We recall major events in our lives, but “have to hear a phone number five to 10 times before [we] can repeat it.” “Worse,” Marcus points out, “our memories are vulnerable to contamination and distortion. Lawyers can readily fool us.”
A mind-twisting article in Wired’s May issue quotes neurological researcher Stephen Macknik, “Tricks work only because magicians know, at an intuitive level, how we look at the world.” Adds Teller of Penn & Teller fame, “Giving the trick away [gives] nothing away because you still couldn’t grasp it.” Hmm. The magic of Bernie Madoff, now imprisoned CEOs, and defamed televangelists?
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