27 JUL 2018 by ideonexus
Successful Prediction
Successful prediction is the revenge of the nerds. Superforecasters are intelligent but not necessarily brilliant, falling just in the top fifth of the population. They are highly numerate, not in the sense of being math whizzes but in the sense of comfortably thinking in guesstimates. They have personality traits that psychologists call “openness to experience” (intellectual curiosity and a taste for variety), “need for cognition” (pleasure taken in intellectual activity), and “int...Folksonomies: statistics prediction
Folksonomies: statistics prediction
08 JUL 2016 by ideonexus
5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential Andrea Kuszewski
1. Seek Novelty
There is only one trait out of the "Big Five" from the Five Factor Model of personality (Acronym: OCEAN, or Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) that correlates with IQ, and it is the trait of Openness to new experience. People who rate high on Openness are constantly seeking new information, new activities to engage in, new things to learn—new experiences in general [2].
2. Challenge Yourself
Efficiency is not your friend when it co...01 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Earth is Overcrowded Psychologically
The Earth is overcrowded. Not yet in a literal sense: Our technology is
adequate to maintain comfortably a population significantly larger than our
present 3.6 billion. The Earth is overcrowded in a psychological sense. For that
restless and ambition-driven fraction of mankind that has blazed new paths for our
species, there are no new places to go. There are places inside of ourselves, but this
is not the forte of such individuals. There are the ocean basins, but we are not yet
committed to ...Folksonomies: space exploration overcrowding
Folksonomies: space exploration overcrowding
Every frontier is explored, there is only one place to go for adventure and that is outward.