Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Polar Bear Statistical Reasoning

Wagner's MBA Law of Polar Bear Statistical Reasoning: The polar bears realize they are probably experiencing local weather patterns, because at polar bear school they learned about units of analysis in statistics class, so they would not assume that a local phenomenon could be generalized to the entire globe.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Marxism

Wagner's MBA Law of Marxism: Marxism is like an opera about why the inequity found in Capitalism is more efficient; some people take the opera seriously and demand Socialism, while other people just appreciate the impracticality of the underlying plot, and go buy something nice on credit.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of Justin Bieber News

Wagner's MBA Law of Justin Bieber News: There is nothing about Justin Bieber that I needed, need, or will need to know. Please make it stop. Just say NO to Justin Bieber publicity stunts in 2014.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of the Cost of Education

Wagner's MBA Law of the Cost of Education: Education is a better investment than ignorance; A tree planted in the mind grows for many years and bears much fruit.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Wagner's MBA Laws of Against Racist Thinking

Wagner's MBA Laws of Against Racist Thinking: 1. Skin color (or any other physical feature) is often a meaningless way to group individuals; 2. Opinions formed by averaging individuals in a group often do not apply to any single individual in the group; 3. Opinions formed based on one individual often do not apply to a group; 4. Racists often appear to be ignorant, because racist thinking produces false conclusions; 5. Friends don't let friends think like racists!

Wagner's MBA Law of Racist Thinking

Wagner's MBA Law of Racist Thinking: Racist thinking is an illogical method of forming opinions about people that is taught, learned, and assures false conclusions; it is based on the Ecological Fallacy (e.g., individuals are stereotyped to behave a certain way because they have a specific skin color) and the Exception Fallacy (e.g., groups of individuals are stereotyped because the behavior of an individual with the same skin color).

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Wagner's MBA Law of NFL Football Championship Games

Wagner's MBA Law of NFL Football Championship Games: The final score is the same whether you watch the game or not.