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"Directors feed everyone so much bologna about Mary Kay and how great it is.But did you know that every line of every script has an underlying message? Everything a director tells you and/or a potential recruit can be very easily translated into its true meaning within a split second.
Here are some of the most common lines and their actual meanings"
John Tierny writes, over the New York Times, about an interesting cognitive dissonance experiment in moral hypocrisy:
"You show up for an experiment and are told that you and a person arriving later will each have to do a different task on a computer. One job involves a fairly easy hunt through photos that will take just 10 minutes. The other task is a more tedious exercise in mental geometry that takes 45 minutes."
"A double standard of morality also emerged when other people were arbitrarily divided in two groups and given differently colored wristbands. They watched as one person, either from their group or from the other group, went through the exercise and assigned himself the easy job.Even though the observers had no personal stake in the outcome -- they knew they would not be stuck with the boring job -- they were still biased. On average, they judged it to be unfair for someone in the other group to give himself the easy job, but they considered it fair when someone in their own group did the same thing."
Matt Cutts has an article on identity fraud:
"I wanted to write down 3-4 easy steps to protect yourself from identity theft and help you check your free annual credit reports."
Read the entire article for a surprising conclusion.
Finally, Greg Newton has a nice article about why a popular view about the Bear Stearns demise is wrong.
