HR Mistakes

Heard this today and got a chuckle out of it…”You spend 98% of your energy dealing with your 2% error in

judgment when hiring”

Polling Locations Bias Individuals

There was an interesting passage in the book Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow that gave me a little pause.

It was referring to a study where school referendums were on the ballot and results for the elections. It was

showing the difference in the voting results based on the location where the ballot was cast in a school or

non-school location and the results were that a person was much more likely to vote yes for the referendum

if they were voting in a school than if they were not.

I thought this was particularly interesting since this year Minnesota will be voting on whether or not to

constitutionally ban gay marriage….and my polling place happens to be in a church…I would image that

this scenario is played out where there will be several percentage points who will be persuaded to vote yes

based on where the polling location is taking.

If you aren’t able to post political commentary near polling places how does that reconcile holding a polling

location where the location itself is a symbol for the initiative?

Confession #65442

It was me I took your three weeks of food that you fill-up the work fridge with and left it out on the counter all weekend…opps. Next time how about just bring the food in on a daily basis like everyone else so there is
room for everybody….

Twins Game

                                                 With TC at the Brewers\Twins Game

Masters 2012

Summer Vacation

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Lots of little things in the works entering a series of three 30 day personal sprints.

 See you on the other side.

Global Warming and Sosa

Described in my favorite terms baseball:

Do you think Sammy Sosa took steroids? Yes
Do you think Steroids enhanced his performance? Yes
Do you think he was more likely to hit a home run at each plate appearance taking steroids then without? Yes

Do you think if he struck out six times in a row that would be proof he wasn’t on steroids? No
Can you prove that a specific home run, he hit in a specific inning on a specific day was directly due to steroids? No
Can you predict if he will hit a home run in his next at bat after taking steroids? No

See there are two concepts at work a general one and a specific one. Global warming like steroids is a general rule. An event is more likely to occur because of stimulators then without it. Just like the average number of home runs will increase, the average temperature will increase over time.

Bus Driver Diss

We call people who steer boats captains, people who steer planes captains and we tend to look down at bus drivers,. What’s up with that? Seems kind of arbitrary.

Bet there is a lot more risk driving the 5 down Chicago Ave than a flight from New York to LA

Wardrobe Choices

I am convinced every girl has a go to hooker outfit. 

Autism on the Rise?

Autism on the Rise?

In putting these two thoughts together I can’t help but wonder if part of rise in cases of diagnosed autism comes from increased sexual selection for employable intelligence?

No doubt better screening is a factor but I wonder…