My anecdote: I work for a F100 company that's in the midst of a (long) transition to Office 365. In a mid-level engineering staff meeting 2 days ago where we spent 20 minutes discussing the advantages of Teams over Skype for Business, and what could be done to accelerate our transition. All driven by WFH - Office 365 applications don't require a VPN connection in our org, while Outlook/Skype does.
'Regarding the policy of suppressing videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor users, Gartner stated that the rules “represented an early blunt attempt at preventing bullying, but are no longer in place, and were already out of use when The Intercept obtained them.”'
Maybe tall people are precisely as confident as they should be, and it's short people who have issues. e.g. "Napoleon Complex". I've personally met more than a few people who fall into this phenomena. It's not a trait that's compatible with good leadership skills. As for why this might be the case at all, I'd guess it has something to do with us being glorified apes.
> In 2018, evolutionary psychologist Mark van Vugt and his team at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found evidence for the Napoleon complex in human males. Men of short stature behaved more (indirectly) aggressive in interactions with taller men. Their evolutionary psychology hypothesis argues that in competitive situations when males, human or nonhuman, receive cues that they are physically outcompeted, the Napoleon complex psychology kicks in: physically weaker males should adopt alternative behavioral strategies to level the playing field, including showing indirect aggression and coalition building.[10]
Of course these are generalities and you can find many exceptions, but the same is true of "managers tend to be taller"; that too is a generality with many exceptions.
That's pretty common IME though the ones I've driven didn't make decisions based on that.
Last few cars I've rented had a speed limit sign generally matching the speed limit on the dash, and on the one I rented this christmas passing a speed limit sign (or an other sign triggering a speed limit change) while on limiter or cruise control would flash a message suggesting pressing a button twice to change the configured speed to that (rather than manually adjust using the +/- buttons).
They were mediums (C-segment) and compact MPV not large or luxury, which I expect is why the sign reading was mostly to purely indicative.
Yes, many cars do now. Some of the "less smart" cars don't necessarily know which signs are which. My 2018 Accord thought the speed limit was 100mph when I was on Highway 99.
My girlfriend is an fMRI physicist with access to a scanner - I’ll recommend this as a study if she comes to a loose end with her research for a while :P
I accidentally called one back a few days ago and incoming robocalls have gone through the roof. I have no proof that that's why, but I won't rule it out.
On a more positive note, Hiya has been working really well identifying spam/robocalls, so I don't actually pick them up.
Anecdotally, I've noticed a decrease since a few months ago (my call blocker log shows 1 call in all of January) and I've been picking up, striking up a conversation for 10-15 seconds then continuing the same with hardcore insults in a relaxed, deadpan manner, as if we were still discussing their IT assistance/credit card "refund"/cruise/security system offer. If they start yelling I just hang up. Some people try to keep selling me their crap, that is funny; I've got quite a few stunned silences punctuated by huffs and puffs, and I made one scammer sob, that was great (I guess whatever I told him about his call center job was accidentally well targeted); so it's also great entertainment and takes very little time, you can have them on speakerphone and keep working/reading/working out/etc.
