Post No.: 0176 Fluffystealthkitten says: A lot of people hold dearly onto the over-generalised belief that ‘natural is always best’ for our health and that anything that isn’t considered natural is bad or at least cannot be as … Read More
Post No.: 0175 Furrywisepuppy says: The first step to recovery can often be realising that something is an illness rather than one’s normal or immutable personality or inevitable life trajectory. And like most health problems or diseases – … Read More
Post No.: 0174 Furrywisepuppy says: Direct evidence and primary information sources, which include videos, photographs and eyewitness statements – are the original sources of data. Indirect evidence and secondary information sources, which include newspaper reports, forums and blogs … Read More
Post No.: 0173 Fluffystealthkitten says: Statistically speaking, picking good names for one’s children is apparently important for their life outcomes. People tend to love their own names and tend to favour and gravitate towards those who share a … Read More
Post No.: 0172 Furrywisepuppy says: Every sovereign country’s own laws are somewhat individual thus trying to generalise legal topics comes with this caveat. Nevertheless, there are some patterns across major parts of the world because of how legal … Read More
Post No.: 0171 Furrywisepuppy says: Bodies can physically appear in many different ways and still be physically fit. For example, a top triathlete will look very different to a top weightlifter, yet both can be incredibly fit in … Read More
Post No.: 0170 Furrywisepuppy says: Being presented with any choice, on the face of it, should always be at least no worse than being presented no choice at all, when the ‘you have no choice’ ‘option’ is one … Read More
Post No.: 0169 Furrywisepuppy says: To clarify – what I mean here by a ‘mass media-directed’ education is an education that’s not built upon a formal study of subjects via reputable educational institutions but merely upon snippets of … Read More
Post No.: 0168 Furrywisepuppy says: People who self-harm do so for various individual reasons. One reason why some people self-harm is to assert some control over their own feelings or to use the physical pain to mask out … Read More
Post No.: 0167 Fluffystealthkitten says: Always read statistics carefully – read what they’re saying exactly, not what you think they’re saying. For example, don’t read too much into outliers yet don’t completely ignore them either, and don’t over-extrapolate … Read More
Post No.: 0166 Furrywisepuppy says: If you’ve been reading the posts in this blog consecutively, you’ve probably noticed that cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias have been mentioned several times before in previous posts, so I’d like to offer … Read More
Post No.: 0165 Fluffystealthkitten says: In ‘the West’, many of us have a highly skewed perception of where the vast majority of terrorist incidents occur in the world (it isn’t in North America or Europe – check out … Read More
Post No.: 0164 Furrywisepuppy says: At work, there are many things that are critical for one’s furry sense of well-being besides just the size of one’s salary and any material fringe benefits. One can appreciate that not everyone … Read More
Post No.: 0163 Furrywisepuppy says: The following is a selection of some of the peculiar irrationalities we exhibit when it comes to money. You might say it continues on from Post No.: 0020 about how people sometimes behave … Read More
Post No.: 0162 Furrywisepuppy says: Sacred values or beliefs (special values or beliefs placed above the merely material, secular or profane) are considered non-tradable or non-negotiable – thus they violate rational cost-benefit rules. This is because they are … Read More
Post No.: 0161 Furrywisepuppy says: I think too much sometimes, and it occasionally keeps me up at night. Can you help me out with some of these personally perplexing puzzles? It’s only light-hearted really. Fluffystealthkitten says: … Read More
