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| The study that looks at the influence of broad social structures and forces social networks |
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| The study that looks at individual personalities/brains/choices |
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| Suicide rates are inversely related to social integration and social regulation, except in extreme cases where excessive regulation and integrations is also a problem |
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| Sociology vs. Conventional Wisdom? |
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| conventional wisdom requires belief, logical guess, or personal anecdote; where as sociology requires systematic evidence rather than a single anecdote (social patterns, not individual experience) |
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| Suicide related to lack of social integration (too much individualism), not belonging unmarried people |
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| Related to too much integration, overwhelmed by group beliefs, kill themselves on behalf of society |
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Sudden changes, no limits/rules
Moral confusion, lack of social direction
People don't know where they fit in |
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| Sources of Bad Statistics |
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| Bad Guesses, deceptive definitions, and misleading measures, mangled or mutant statistics, non-representative convenience samples, or faulty or spurious causation. |
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| Sources of Good Statistic |
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| More than a guess, clear, reasonable measures, not mangled or transformed, (random) representative samples, and considers/controls for other causes |
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| Stretched, twisted, distorted or mangled versions of original figures |
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Excellence requires qualitative differentiation, not quantitative increase
talant is not a useful concept, doesn't predict excellence
Excellence is mundane, Success is ordinary |
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| According to "The Mundanity of Excellence" what is more important; how much one practices or what one practices? |
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| How important is IQ to success? Who is Chris Langan? |
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| IQ is helpful but past 120 IQ points each point gives the person no greater advantage. Chris Langan had an IQ of 195 and amazed everyone on game shows with his brilliance. He ended up not doing well in college because he didn't have the social skills to be successful in college. |
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| Who are Terman’s termites? How successful are they? |
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| in 1921, 1475 of the brightest kids in California (IQ between 140 and 200) were followed throughout their life. In the end some became leaders but on average most of them were average or above average of success, income, and fame. The control group preformed almost as well except Termans group had 2 Nobel Prize winners |
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| According to Gladwell why is a plane more likely to crash when the most accomplished and experienced pilot is flying? |
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| Because we (as humans) feel the need to respect the more experienced person and not be rude by undermining their authority even if we know they are wrong |
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| When is a plane most likely to crash? |
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| bad weather, slightly behind schedule, tired pilot, pilot and co-pilot haven't flown together (week communication), and a crash is caused by several little things going wrong and the pilot doesn't notice it but the co-pilot doesn't want to be rude and correct him |
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| What is the main point of the article “Love Knows No Reason”? What reasons account for the high rate of endogamy in marriage? |
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| That love is a lot more sociological than we think, and because we tend to marry people in similar social situations to ourselves (age, education, race, religion, and income) |
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| What similarities do the marriage market and the job market share with one another? |
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- social networks matter (who you know, who knows you)
- having connections are better than going in cold
- the best opportunities are not always advertised
- weak ties are better connections than strong ties because they open up more social opertunities |
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| How did the article on New Orleans show the weakness of strong ties? |
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| with strong ties people felt the need to stay to take care of their family/grandparents/friends most of them also didn't have a car or friends houses to stay at outside the state |
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| What is the main point of the article "Social Networks: The Value of Variety" what are the advantages of diverse social networks? |
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| Diverse ties are beneficial. It improves the chance of getting a spouse, staying in good health, making more money, and being happier in general. All together it increases your chance of success. |
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