I spend less time on my computer without Facebook’s source of infinite content. During real life experiences, what is or isn’t worth sharing on Facebook no longer lingers in the back of my mind, so I spend more time simply enjoying the present. And the false comparisons between others’ curated digital self-presentations and my own naturally widespread sources of pride, fulfillment, dissatisfaction and insecurity no longer exist.~ My Life Without Facebook: A Social Experiment
~ Oligarchy, American Style - NYTimes.comWe have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us a democracy in name only.
We still like to think of ourselves as a middle-class country. But with the bottom 80 percent of households now receiving less than half of total income, that’s a vision increasingly at odds with reality.
Interviewer with the serious tuxedo: Where do the ideas come from, for your songs?
Blue Öyster Cult guys (with moustaches on): Comic books, movies, television, nightmares. Anything but real life.
Blue Oyster Cult Merv Griffin Show Part 2 (by HarlJHogg)
~ False memories: Did you lock the door or just imagine it? | ksdk.com | St. Louis, MOThe paper details three different experiments in which participants read about or actually performed a series of simple actions, such as shaking a bottle or shuffling a deck of cards. Then they watched videos of someone else doing simple actions - some of which they had done and some they had only seen being done.
Two weeks later, they were asked which of as many as 30 actions they had done themselves. Researchers found the subjects were much more likely to falsely remember doing an action if they had watched someone else do it.
Echterhoff says the research controlled for the common situation of thinking you had done something because you do it yourself every day. And, he says, participants had false memories even when cautioned about the possibility.
Faire des réponses très générales à des questions très générales pour avoir l’air très intelligent.
La croyance aux arrière-mondes : un certain nombre de raisonnements font l’hypothèse implicite qu’il y a des choses cachées derrière les phénomènes que nous étudions.
Les fautes de raisonnement : erreurs d’interprétation des chiffres, erreurs sémantiques (les deux sens de “comparer”), etc.
Manipulation rhétorique : faire passer une idée derrière un mot, sans qu’elle en soit la conséquence. Objectif : vendre un point de vue, une idée, une conviction idéologique. Argumenter les opinions politiques que l’on a sur le monde. Faire passer pour réalité scientifique des convictions qui n’ont rien d’objectif, qui font partie d’un politiquement correct.
Raisons de ces bêtises : désintérêt pour le réel, peur d’être seul (conformisme, pulsion d’appartenance, propension universelle de l’être humain, particulièrement dangereux dans les milieux intellectuels, où au contraire il faudrait cultiver la liberté de penser du chercheur).
Dailymotion - Nathalie Heinich – Le bêtisier du sociologue - une vidéo Art et Création
