Research can be a crock of shit. Saying that the ‘research says’ doesn’t mean anything if the research is problematic. That’s why, here, we always try to link the article so one can evaluate for oneself. Although, if I’m honest, there are plenty of exa…

We learn in a number of ways, us clever humans do. From the people around us, from the consequences of our actions and from the <a href=“ht…

The concept of ‘short-term memory’ is flawed. We’ve spoken before about how memory is usually considered in three ‘stores’, long term, short term and sensory. But short-term memory presents a problem,…

Intelligence tests are wildly over-rated. But tests of general mental ability can be very, very useful. For starters, they are the most consistent thing in terms of their ability to pred…

Would it surprise you to learn job interviews aren’t actually that useful for employers? In fact, in their most common form, job interviews aren’t even necessarily required at all. Why? Well, they come with a number of limitations; they’re very challen…