Why are Rationals so infrequent?

After finishing the Jung Typology Test, a personality test, one can be directed to Keirsey Temperament Website, in which one can get some knowledge about the 4 temperaments. What interests me the most is the distribution of the 4 temperaments in the population: 1) the Guardians 40%~45%; 2) the Idealists 8%~10%; 3) the Artisans 35%~40%; [...]

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Non-god religion!!!

Novak, 54, is a member of the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago, a religious group that focuses on respecting others and does not worship a deity. He found it 16 years ago when looking for a nontheistic moral education for his children, and knew right away that he wanted to get involved.
“It’s a place where [...]

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New form of government-business relation

After reading
What power looks like:
They ride on Gulfstreams, set the global agenda, and manage the credit crunch in their spare time. They have more in common with each other than their countrymen. Meet the Superclass.
A part of the story in this article is about the American Treasury Secretary and Fed bank’s chairperson convening with the [...]

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Game and the Strait

After Prof. Eric Maskin gave a speech last week, an op-ed written by an econ-PhD candidate appeared in a popular newspaper, titling  “兩岸談判需是三方賽局.” At the first glance, the argument seems to be convincing, but a closer examination reveals its unsoundness.
According to Prof. Joseph Wang, the author made a mistake in that the involvement of a [...]

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Life, Liberty and Dont Pursuit Happiness

I was tidying my room while listening Philosophy Talk talking about “Happiness”, I properly have miss a few point here or there. But,
I really wish they had spend more time talking about Happiness as an incentive that is part of a larger system our genes use to encourage our consciousness to act in a way [...]

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Potential Applications for Digital Video Analysis and a decentralised business strategy to develop it

Digitization of our society is apparently an unstoppable and speeding trend, From Hotmail, Google library, to recreating an entire university inside a computer by Microsoft’s’ WorldWide Telescope. Digitization are driven by different technology “engines”. I am using the terminology “engines” because some technology has so much potential for spin-off applications that it should be view [...]

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Military Draft is an Externality

In “Toward a theory of Property Rights”, Harold Demsetz wrote,
Perhaps one of the most significant cases of externalities is the extensive use of the military draft. The taxpayer benefits by not paying the full cost of staffing the armed services. The costs which he escapes are the additional sums that would be needed to acquire [...]

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