Does it matter how effect sizes are communicated to non-academic audiences? Two new studies illustrate the malleability of statistical perception. One paper examined how educational effects are ...

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Everyone has thought it: If I could just press rewind; if I could go back in time and reverse events, then I could make things better. And then the reality of our unidirectional “arrow of time” ...

For the past several days*, the Bitcoin network has been plagued by a so-called “transaction malleability attack.” Bitcoin users have experienced a number of annoyances, causing confusion and ...

Wade-Benzoni, Kimberly A., Min Li, Leigh L. Thompson, and Max Bazerman. "The Malleability of Environmentalism." Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 7, no. 1 (December 2007).

All easier said than done though, as mind and heart can be obstinate.