Certainty Bias Part 2: How Certain Can We Be?
October 31, 2025 Image: Pixabay “We need to take insights more seriously. Improving performance depends on reducing errors but it also depends on increasing...
Welcome to Cultural Intelligence
Hi: Thank you for being a recipient of my blog, Cultural Intelligence. After a brief hiatus, I’m returning to publishing the blog monthly. The Center for...
Certainty Bias Part 2: How Certain Can We Be?
October 31, 2025 Image: Pixabay “We need to take insights more seriously. Improving performance depends on reducing errors but it also depends on increasing...
Certainty Bias Part 1: Overconfidence
Certainty Bias Part 1: Overconfidence Image: Pexels “Once {Chief Inspector Morse} got an idea stuck firmly in his brain, something cataclysmic was needed to...
Uncertainty as the Human Condition (Part 2)
Uncertainty as the Human Condition (Part 2) "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to compel man to unfold...
Uncertainty Bias and How to Cope (Part 1)
Uncertainty Bias and How to Cope (Part 1) I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value...
Lateral Thinking Principles
Lateral Thinking Principles “If you want to think what nobody else thinks, ask a question that nobody else asks.” --Paul Sloane, lateral thinking expert...
Sideways Intelligence: Lateral thinking
Photo: Pixabay “Lateral knowledge is knowledge that is from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that is not even understood as a direction until...
“Themeatics: The Art of Hyperreality” JPC, February-April 2025.
Image: Statue of Liberty at New York New York hotel casino in Las Vegas (Photo: J.G. O’Boyle)Abstract Since Disney Imagineering introduced the theme park in...
Mobility Equals Freedom, Part 2: Driving and Quality of Life
“Everything in life is somewhere else—and you get there in a car.” -- E.B. White “Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it...
Mobility Equals Freedom
Pixabay images "I have heard you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don't want to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I...
Bias Widening, Part 2 – Bias and Discovery
Bias Widening, Part 2 – Bias and Discovery “Any choice of evidence depends upon the mindset of the observers." --Robert Burton, MD, On Being Certain (2008) *...
Bias Widening by Connecting Ideas Part 1 - Idea Flow
Bias Widening by Connecting Ideas Part 1: Idea Flow Italian Hill Village – Pixabay image“By challenging basic assumptions, it’s possible to stumble upon...
Appropriation Reconsidered
ap·pro·pri·a·tion /əˌprōprēˈāSH(ə)n/ noun The action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. "The appropriation of...
Lifecycle of Values: Human Transformation by Age Stages -- Why our buying values change over time
Cultural Studies & Analysis has developed a set of basic tools relating to human behavior in groups, the basic unit of culture. The Age Stage Development...
The Transformation Economy
“Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformation that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.” - Jean Piaget, psychologist “[When I...
Equal Opportunity – Santa Monica High School cancels honors classes
Image by Pixabay “Today, we live in a society structured to promote early bloomers. Our school system has sorted people by the time they are 18, using grades...
The Moon Is a Cultural Force
Eclipsing Moon Image: Pixabay “Since the beginning of time, the moon has controlled life on earth and shepherded the human mind through a spectacular journey...
Body, Brain, Behavior, and Bias
Photo from Pixabay “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” -- Charles Darwin...
Brain Bias, Male and Female
Image by The Conversation “On the basis of the information available it seems unrealistic to deny any longer the existence of male and female brain...