In 2007, The New England Journal of Medicine had a study on obesity and social networks that has results that said: "A person’s chances of becoming obese increased by 57% (95% confidence interval [CI], 6 to 123) if he or she had a friend who became obese in a given interval. Among pairs of adult … Continue reading Social Contagion & Tolerance
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Changing Reality Tunnels
Open Question: How does one cultivate the skill of evaluating our world view, assessing its strengths and weaknesses, and changing it when our situation changes? "Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, … Continue reading Changing Reality Tunnels
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