Cognitive Engineering

Are personality tests any use? What can they tell us if anything? Or is it like a star-sign?

Take the test!

• https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

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What is Remembrance for? How long should it be observed?

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Are we more polarised than ever before?

Things mentioned in this episode:

• Recent Pew Research on polarisation
• Jonathan Wheatley on voter clustering
• Poole and Rosenthal’s original paper proposing metrics for polarisation in the US legislature
• American Interest article proposing causes of polarisation
• Brookings Institute on polarisation
• YouGov survey of unrepresented views

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Would you wear cycling shorts to the office?

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Lies damn lies and profiles! You're going to exaggerate, that's a given. So what's the best strategy?

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Why do we have so many remakes? Why are some movies remade and others are not? Why are some so bad?

• https://stephenfollows.com/

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Why did it take 100 years to find the #49? In a world where everything is digitized, will we ever lose anything? If things don't have a digital record, will they may as well not exist?

Inverted Jenny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny Data created per day: https://blog.microfocus.com/how-much-data-is-created-on-the-internet-each-day/ How does the Wayback Machine work?: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2015/11/16/how-much-of-the-internet-does-the-wayback-machine-really-archive/#48383d419446 How much data is on the internet?: https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/how-much-data-is-on-the-internet/ All the books in the world: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/12/every-book-ever-published-would-fit-on-to-one-hard-disk/

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Can you be both interesting while being professional? Will humor always offend someone?

Signalling theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) Countersignalling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling

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Can big firms be innovative? Peter, Nick and Fraser are joined by a special guest Roland Hardwood.

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What makes a hero?

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