[b]Malcolm Gladwell
Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring to the package.[/b]
You’re shocked, aren’t you?
It is a strange thing, isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning?
Cue Boris and Peggy. Among others.
What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn’t a fundamental trait, or what they called a “unified” trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation.
In particular when money is involved.
A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information.
Of course lots of others species are like that too. If not all of them.
Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions. In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions.
Let’s pin this down: genes or memes?
In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.
Let’s pin this down: genes or memes?