by Argumentful | Feb 27, 2020 | News |
Another course from the module taught by Prof. Steven Pinker at Harvard was made available free of charge on Panopto. The topic is Rational Choice Theory and Game Theory and includes among others the Utility Theory, the Prisoners’ Dilemma and concepts of game...
by Argumentful | Feb 20, 2020 | News |
We’re starting a new section on this blog to include interesting news we’ve stumbled upon over the last week. It will all be related to science or critical thinking and we’ll try to keep cat and puppy videos to a minimum. The state of technology in...
by Argumentful | Feb 18, 2020 | News |
On the premise that, if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, if we’re anyway about to open a can worms, we’ll go for the biggest one on the shelf. What we wanted to do is some primary research around reader comments on online newspapers so we went for an...
by Argumentful | Feb 11, 2020 | Critical thinking posts |
Employee performance evaluations – they should occur regularly (e.g. yearly), they should be in line with a company’s expectations for each job level and apply fairly to everyone. We didn’t include “in an ideal world” because some...
by Argumentful | Feb 9, 2020 | Critical thinking posts |
We’ve seen in the book Truth Decay discussed in the previous post that there’s a declining trust in traditional institutions and people tend to have more confidence in what their friends or favourite media outlets say than in proper argumentation. It would...
