Word: maths
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...prize, but now their assigned task was to work as teams to solve computational problems from previous versions of the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). Before the work began, the participants informed the researchers - but not their team members - of their real-world scores on the math portion of the SAT. When the work was finished, the people who spoke up more were again likelier to be described by peers as leaders and likelier to be rated as math whizzes. What's more, any speaking up at all seemed to do. Participants earned recognition for being the first to call...
...talk more do so because they simply have more to contribute? To test that, Anderson and Kilduff ran a second study with a new team of volunteers in which the skill being tested was a lot more quantifiable than forming a nonprofit green group. This time it was math. (See entrepreneurs breaking ground in global business...
Fifteen Minutes (FM): You were an applied math concentrator here at Harvard—did you envision yourself going into the Internet world while studying here...
...your love life while attending Harvard? SY: We were all math majors, and all super analytical. We definitely weren’t dating experts. We just observed what it was in life that drew people together and made them click, and our approach of observing how people date in the world allowed us to transfer those observations into an online Web site. How they decide whom they like, where they go on dates—we try to transfer this online...
...best part of electronic dance music, though, is its versatility. It can satisfy a variety of different tastes, including either soft or hard beats and ranging in content from forbidden love stories to journeys of self-exploration. For math geeks, “Infinity 2008” by Guru Josh Project is sure to get you on your feet. Romantics should give “C’est Beau La Bourgeosie” by Discobitch a try. People into the Middle Eastern club scene will find a winner in Beirut Biloma’s “I Wanna...