16. The Lie Detector Test - How Accurate?

How accurate is the lie detector test? The answer to that depends on who you ask. Various studies show results all over the board. In a recent Department of Defense Polygraph Institute study, one experiment found that less than 37% of test takers...

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17. Caring And Being Considerate

A woman entered a mans shop and was looking around. This woman let out wind and was extremely embarassed, but the man pretended he had not heard. When she asked him the prices of some of the items he was selling he would ask her to repeat, so that...

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18. Rhode Island Criminal Misdemeanor- Probation-filings-suspended Sentences, Convictions

This article explains pleas and sentencing in Rhode Island (RI) for criminal misdemeanors. If you are charged with a misdemeanor crime in Rhode Island you should read this legal article very carefully. However, do not use this article as a...

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19. How Society Works: A Few Critical Elements Summarized

Why do people do what they do? What really explains our behavior? Are those talkshow hosts and columnists really making sense?The media, not to mention daily conversations, are filled with overly simple explanations of social behavior. Prominent...

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20. The Demise Of The Expert And The Ascendance Of The Layman

In the age of Web 2.0, authoritative expertise is slowly waning. The layman reasserts herself as a fount of collective mob "wisdom". Information - unsorted, raw, sometimes wrong - substitutes for structured, meaningful knowledge....

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