EST 201 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Internet, Intelligence, University College London
20 Nov 2018
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More and more research findings turning out to be mistakes or useless. Most grad students: working for that money. Every time you shift your attention from one thing to another, the brain has to engage a neurochemical switch that uses up nutrients in the brain to accomplish that. So if you"re attempting to multitask, you know, doing four or five things at once, you"re not actually doing four or five things at once, because the brain doesn"t work that way. Instead, you"re rapidly shifting from one thing to the next, depleting neural resources as you go. Technology is the raw material" for fighting economic inequality. History is ruthlessly clear about what happens when too much wealth ends up in the hands of the very few. Even as anger about economic inequality has fueled movements - including the campaigns of populist political candidates - specific causes and solutions remain elusive.
