Online ratings and reviews may seem like a good way to see what other consumers think of a product but they can be to simplistic and misleading, research shows.
When a player’s on fire, is it hot hands?
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For 30 years, sports fans have been told to forget about streaks because the ‘hot hand’ is a fallacy. But a reanalysis says not so fast: Statistics show players really are in the zone sometimes.
Should she trust her gut or her head?
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Patients are an important part of improving health care quality; doctors can’t make good decisions for patients by themselves. Here are some things you can do to help take care of yourself.
It’s important to get the research across to and understood by decision-makers.
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Research comes with risk and uncertainty so getting the right message across to the people who matter can be a challenge for scientists. A new plan out today hopes to change that.
Women and their care givers need to be aware of the long-term risks of an early planned delivery.
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Politicians want to regulate the software that decides if we get a loan or a job, but existing laws can already protect us – if we know how to use them.
MRI of grey matter with intracranial electrodes resting on the medial frontal cortex.
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Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) et Ella Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
How can diverse societies agree on strategies for tackling complex problems? Lawrence Susskind and Ella Kim of MIT explain how role-playing games can help people learn to collaborate.
Some argue that morality is everywhere, or maybe nowhere, in our brain.
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There’s no single region in the brain responsible for all moral decision making. But neuroscience research has shown specific brain regions are involved when we’re faced with moral dilemmas.
Biomedical science has made our lives immeasurably better, but it’s time to accept that too much medicine can be as harmful as too little.
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By forgetting that medicine postpones death rather than saving lives, we persuade ourselves it might somehow keep extending our life and come to view death as a failure of medicine.
Decisions, decisions.
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Hurricanes can be deadly to those in their path. Officials don’t want to unnecessarily alarm before solid forecasts are in place, but residents need enough time to prepare and heed evacuation orders.
A male bonobo who likely holds some irrational biases when it comes to economic decision-making.
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Just the other day I found myself in the waiting room of an automotive dealership. While my car was being serviced, I flipped through a product brochure. One ad for an oil change boasted that it would…