World Cup winners, job applicants: the Draw Effect

June 14, 2010

Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com gives some statistical insight into the importance of the random draw in the World Cup: The draw, indeed, is very important — with the possible exception of the NBA draft lottery in a year where you have someone like LeBron available, I can’t think of too many other sporting events in [...]

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How to increase your luck: start today

June 13, 2010

Finally! It’s been a few days a week since I finally bought karlastarr.net, in anticipation for my new project. This is very blatantly inspired by various things I was reading last week, more or less simultaneously: Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, and John Mayer’s Twitter page. I pray that [...]

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Want motivation? Envision quick feedback.

March 30, 2010

According to a study just published in Psychological Science: Students who were told they would receive feedback quickly on their performance earned higher grades than students who expected feedback at a later time… Furthermore, when students expected to receive their grades quickly, they predicted that their performance would be worse than students who were to [...]

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What’s the point of…

February 14, 2010

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