From the abstract of ‘Why Do People Stay Poor? Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh’, November 24, 2020: There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent or motivation. The other, poverty traps view, differences in opportunities stemming from differences in wealth. We …
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What's common to #yesallwomen, scripta manent, good journalism and poka-yoke?
A professing of intelligence without continuous practice can, and will, occasionally legitimise immature thinking.
What’s common to #yesallwomen, scripta manent, good journalism and poka-yoke?
A professing of intelligence without continuous practice can, and will, occasionally legitimise immature thinking.
The capacity to notoriety of work
Why is it considered OK to flaunt hard work? Will there come a time when it might be more prudent to mask long hours of work behind a finished product and instead behave as if the object was conceived with less work and more skill and intelligence? Is it because hard work is considered a …
Building the researcher's best friend
One of the most pressing problems for someone conducting any research on personal initiative has to be information storage, access, and reproduction. Even if you’re someone who’s just going through interesting papers in pre-print servers and journals and want to quickly store text, excerpts, images, videos, diagrams, and/or graphs on the fly, you’ll notice that …
Building the researcher’s best friend
One of the most pressing problems for someone conducting any research on personal initiative has to be information storage, access, and reproduction. Even if you’re someone who’s just going through interesting papers in pre-print servers and journals and want to quickly store text, excerpts, images, videos, diagrams, and/or graphs on the fly, you’ll notice that …