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...pretend that my votes are any kind of reliable predictor of who will or won't win. I don't even pretend that they're backed by any special knowledge or coherent reasoning - hey, I'm a theater critic, not an expert in sound design. Indeed, the dirty little secret is that voting for the Tonys is a dangerously haphazard affair. It's not a pretty picture, but here's a quick run-down of how I voted and why - listed in the (somewhat arbitrary) order they're given on the ballot, which you can see here (and is continued...
...that high school classroom performance is a better predictor of success...
...part of the study, 16 employees at a Boston firm received bonuses ranging from $3,000 to $8,000. Norton said he was surprised to find that whether or not the employees had spent money on others turned out to be the only significant predictor of their happiness level about two months later, and spending on others brought more happiness than the relative size of their own bonus. Norton said that the results have applications in marketing—a word that most associate just with advertising—which is his specialty area. “However, marketing...
...While 10 years is a necessary minimum to achieve expertise in most fields, it doesn't guarantee success. As Anders Ericsson writes in the introduction to the 901-page Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (2006), "The number of years of experience in a domain is a poor predictor of attained performance." Ericsson, 60, is a professor at Florida State who moved to the U.S. from his native Sweden in 1976 to study with Simon, co-author of the seminal chess paper. (Simon went on to win a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on decision-making.) Today...
...doing a lot of ground breaking work in the area of happiness. Very often people look for happiness very far away when it is right next to them. If you are talking about positivity and well being, they should look to their friends, family and roommates. The number one predictor of well-being is quality time with people we care about and who care about us. Your grandma could have told you this, and she probably has told you this: that you should invest time in your family. And there is research to back up your grandmother?...