We Change For The Good So Long

Baseball Is This Intense Subculture That Actually Doesn't Speak Very Much For The Larger Culture.

Time And Space Are Absolute. Diseases Are Evil Spirits That Inhabit The Body. Parallel Lines Never Meet. The Earth Is The Center Of The Universe. Children Are Miniature Adults. At One Time In History Each Of These Beliefs Was Generally Held To Be True. Each, However, Gave Way To Different Ideas And Even Different World Views.

Thirdly-but Not Lastly-there Was The Bias Toward What People Saw With Their Own Eyes, Or Thought They Had Seen. The Human Mind Played Tricks On Itself When It Relied Exclusively On What It Saw. There Was A Lot You Couldn't See When You Watched A Game

The Model Used By Wall Street To Price Trillions Of Dollar's Worth Of Derivatives Thought Of The Financial World As An Orderly, Continuous Process. But The World Was Not Continuous; It Changed Discontinuously, And Often By Accident.

Girls Tend To Attribute Their Failures To Factors Such As Lack Of Ability, While Boys Tend To Attribute Failure To Specific Factors, Including Teachers' Attitudes. Moreover, Girls Avoid Situations In Which Failure Is Likely, Whereas Boys Approach Such Situations As A Challenge, Indicating That Failure Differentially Affects Self-esteem.