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What's behind all this professional prevarication? No one knows for certain, but personnel managers, the gatekeepers of the work force, say it's getting harder and harder to distinguish honest applicants from the growing number of dishonest ones. "Lying," says Wendy Bliss, a consultant with the Virginia-based Society for Human Resource Management, "is happening on a very large scale...
...absurd questions such as “what is the number one?” Yet as we worked through the syllabus, I was struck by Frege’s injunction “always to separate sharply the psychological from the logical”—to distinguish clearly the reasons why we ought to hold our beliefs from the contingencies, causes and baser instincts that might explain why we do hold them. It seems like an obvious point, especially in the context of Frege’s philosophy of mathematics; to see why the Pythagorean Theorem...
...team of researchers then began a new study, testing 30 volunteers four times per day over the course of a year to distinguish between the mental acuity of those who did or did not take naps...
During the hour-long tests, which were designed to be visually and mentally draining, subjects had to distinguish between bars flashing across a computer screen...
However, as Gates’ and Ballmer’s roles have become more defined, they have begun to distinguish themselves individually...