best films reviews: Beyond WOW, and two other bargains

Wednesday 24 August 2011

Beyond WOW, and two other bargains

Sydney Morning Herald

Last week, I wrote about the danger of anchoring your investing decisions to a previous price. Even an investor as experienced and successful as Warren Buffett has succumbed to the dangers of anchoring, a decision he says has cost Berkshire Hathaway $8 ...

Is asking your boss for a 10 billion dollar raise a good idea?

Business Insider

Anchoring is a fascinating cognitive bias where people "anchor" their thinking around facts or figures that may be completely irrelevant to subsequent decisions. For instance: ...an audience is first asked to write the last two digits of their social ...

Long putters on a roll on the PGA Tour

USA Today

By anchoring the putter against the belly or sternum or chin, a third point of contact has been made and makes it easier to make the ideal pendulum stroke. The anchoring prevents golfers from breaking their wrists or rolling their forearms — the bane ...

Crew aboard tanker hijacked in Oman safe

gulfnews.com

Nearly 48 hours after it was hijacked by the Somali pirates from Salalah port in Oman, the ship reached the Somalia coast and its master confirmed the anchoring of the vessel north of Bandar Beyla to Messrs Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Pvt Ltd, ...