I think it is safe for me to say that we have all felt some embarrassment about something bad we have done, or about a bad character trait such as being greedy or lazy. For most of us we find it very difficult to confront these emotions about the evil inside s... Read more

I grew up in a close family and always felt blessed to go to my grandparents for Saturday lunch, where 4 generations would sit around the same table talking.   We don't really socialize much other than over the weekly Sabbath meals. This weekend I t... Read more

You can see that from the early 1980's interest rates have been coming down which has been the single biggest factor fueling asset inflation, with the US stock market and many other world indices hitting all time highs in January.   Trump would ... Read more

I am going to take you on a most fascinating yet obscure path to illustrate something I feel quite strongly about. We are about to go down a path in evolutionary biology that is controversial to say the least and I will link this to a very important part of th... Read more

        If anyone should be writing about this subject it is my co-founder Vladimir Krouglov, as he worked formally on this very problem before joining PsyQuation. Perhaps he can share with us how he approached what I am abo... Read more

  Facing your Fears   As a child I grew up with my mom and gran talking about people who suffered from "nerves". Over the last few years as my knowledge about the human psyche has grown I started wondering where the origin of the nerves labe... Read more

I am not sure if you are aware of this amazing correlation of 79% with the number of non-commercial space launches and the number of sociology doctorates awarded in the USA.   I hope you realized that this is a spurious correlation joke. There i... Read more

Square Root Rule     Don't panic I am going to try and keep this simple.   Howard Wainer is quoted as saying that the formula for the standard deviation of the mean is the "most dangerous equation in the world" allow me to sho... Read more

  I had a strong feeling that Donald Trump would win the US Elections in 2016 and I wasn't shy saying so. My wife told me to stop bringing it up when we were invited out for dinner parties, she said it makes me look like an id... Read more

Prospect Theory The above chart describes the famous behavioural finance experts Kahneman and Tversky's discovery that people are more averse to losing $100 than they are to making $100. They called their findings Prospect Theory.   Last week was... Read more