science – ilari.scheinin.fi https://ilari.scheinin.fi Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:28:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 The Ignorance Test https://ilari.scheinin.fi/the-ignorance-test/ Thu, 07 Nov 2013 09:23:40 +0000 http://ilari.scheinin.fi/?p=108 Continue reading →]]> The ignorance test

If for each question I wrote each of the possible alternatives on bananas, and asked chimpanzees in the zoo to pick the right answers, and by picking the right bananas, they’d just pick bananas at random. But the Brits did even worse.

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]]> THIS is why we invest in science. This. https://ilari.scheinin.fi/this-is-why-we-invest-in-science-this/ Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:13:30 +0000 http://ilari.scheinin.fi/?p=265 THIS is why we invest in science. This.

It’s for our own good. And it always pays off.

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