The first time Dennis the Menace went to Hawaii (over 50 years ago), as the captain announced that they were finally landing in Honolulu, Dennis shouted out “Wahoo!”. The flight attendant (they were called stewardesses at that time) said, “Why yes, that’s right Dennis. It is the island of Oahu.” Oahu was lots of fun. […]
Entries from October 2016
Wahoo!
October 26th, 2016 · 2 Comments
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect
October 9th, 2016 · 2 Comments
David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the department of psychology at Cornell University in 1999 performed experiments measuring how well people evaluated their own competence. The result was that people who knew very little about a topic generally greatly over-estimated their competence, while experts tended to correctly or slightly under-estimate themselves. It was only after […]
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South Dakota
October 2nd, 2016 · 3 Comments
We spent a week in South Dakota in mid-September. It was even better than we had expected. We flew into Rapid City, near the south-west corner of the state, and stayed in a beautiful hotel in Keystone. Keystone is just a couple of miles from Mount Rushmore; in fact we could see George Washington and […]
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