Whistle-blowers are depicted as having their lives crumble before them, but those illustrations seem to have become inaccurate ever since the establishment of the Office of the Whistle-blower. Aside from protecting whistle-blowers from retaliation, the office incentivizes whistle-blowers to come forward with rewards – often totalling in the millions, as whistle-blowers can receive anywhere between 10 to 30 percent of what’s collected by SEC in an enforcement action 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
