Taking Up Emotional Space We have more influence than we think, just in places we didn't expect.
How Big a Problem? A shortcut problem-solving technique, and a discussion of what this would mean for acknowledging racial differences in IQ
Professional Jurors Some difficulties that would show pretty quickly
Cow Accents NPR repeated the urban legend that they got from the BBC. We got it right in the comments
Trivia Study Vs Memory At what point does playing trivia become gaming the system. I have a friend who still plays on Tuesday who tells me he has just picked up things like thew birthstone for each monthy.
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At least at the Trivial Pursuit level, you can reframe most questions as 'name a famous'. I think a good heuristic is also the more detailed the clue the more obvious the answer.
My family loved trivial pursuit when it first came out and because of a wide age range we chose teams. That soon morphed into my brother vs everyone else and we changed the rules to make it as hard as possible on him - he had to answer an entire card correctly to win... and he usually did. It was still fun. There are a few restaurants here that have trivia nights and it's a fun night out for us. We seldom win, but we're usually in the top five. They bring me along for "older" things, though I had to be adamant last week in my answer of what the "I" meant in FDIC.
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