Things that Robert is thinking about that keep him from accomplishing anything.

 
Foreign Weather Reports
With the war underway, our local news stations are including weather forecasts for the Iraq and Afghanistan. Great, now they can be wrong twice as often! Have these folks demonstrated any mastery of weather forecasting or special knowledge of weather trends in their own region of the United States?

Actually, they may be better at predicting foreign weather. Check out Dan Goldstein's research. He has some interesting observations about decisionmaking and prediction.
posted by RSaunders at 8:31 AM ⇒