Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category

Adopt a school, earn tax credits, BPO urged

Posted on September 30th, 2009 by Roy

The business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers in the Philippines are urged by the chairman of the House committee on information communications technology to donate computers under the Adopt-a-School Program and avail themselves of gainful tax benefits in return.

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Posted on June 17th, 2009 by PinoyBusiness

Justin Kruger and David Dunning, who won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes in Psychology for their report Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, of Cornell University had a study about human’s cognitive bias. From the family name of the two researchers, they have come up [...]