Men seem to be a little more satisfied with their family lives after the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey conducted in October 2020 asked men and women questions about their experiences with family during the lockdowns. A similarly astonishing finding was that, despite spending all day at home, 48% of fathers still felt they spent too little time with their children. Women’s views on this aspect did not show any significant change, though. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
