Showing posts with label social signaling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social signaling. Show all posts
Friday, January 08, 2016

A New Trend in Job Hiring? Hiring Absent Resumes (Blind Hiring)

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Some companies have been experimenting on hiring or acquiring employees by doing away with credentials (social signaling) to focus instead ...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Video: Humor: If I Don't Post about It Online, Did It Really Happen? (Why People Overshare on Social Media)

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This video is a spoof on why people tend to overshare in social media.   Hat Tip Austrian Economist Bob Murphy, who contributed to the ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Quote of the Day: Standing Up Against Prevailing Beliefs

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Would you rather be an honorable person perceived to be a fraudster, or a fraudster mistaken for an honorable person? The answer can help ...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Illusions of Pundits

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People who spend their time, earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who woul...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Mark Twain on Public Opinion: As a Rule We Do Not Think, We Only Imitate

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a novelist popularly known with his pen name Mark Twain (1835-1910), sees public opinion to be mostly social sig...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Tattoos and Promiscuity

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Sporting tattoos and or body piercing has mostly been about social signaling . Yet many people fail to realize that tattoos increases the ...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

Placebo Effects of Earnings Drives Stock Prices

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Here is an excerpt to my note to a special client Corporate "Fundamentals" serve as placebo to most of the momentum chasers. ...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Quote of the Day: Why Intellectuals are Predisposed to Socialism

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Intellectuals who consider inequalities in wealth evidence of injustice often seek political remedies. These take the form of legislation...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Cartoon (s) of the Day: What Tattoos Say About You

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Tattoos represent a form of social signaling. The graphics below from cracked.com attempt to explain them (hat tip Prof Bryan Caplan) ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Mega-Success, Downfall and Sentimentalism

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Libertarian columnist Robert Ringer writes , Seems like we’ve been here before … many, many times. Whitney Houston’s tragic death is t...

Video: The Economics of Valentine's Day

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In the following video, Professor Chris Coyne explains (via Learnliberty.org) the importance of Valentine's Day as a product of free mar...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Quote of the Day: Is Expertise Posture or Knowledge?

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Another thought provoking article from my favorite marketing guru Seth Godin [bold emphasis mine] What I discovered, though, was that ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Graphic On Social Signaling

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Here is an awesome graphic representation of social signaling from the ever insightful Jessica Hagy. (published on her website Indexed as “ ...