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Rick Hayes-Roth - TruthMarket [audio]
No full textWouldn't it be nice if there were a way to make American politics just a little more rational, just a little more evidence based? Wouldn't it be even nicer if there was a website, or an app, that helped that process along? Maybe, just maybe, a promising innovation called TruthMarket can help with the problem. It's a site where people who care about the truth crowd-fund campaigns dedicated to either proving the veracity of true claims, or the falsity of wrong ones... where, in essence, you make money by showing definitively that you're right. The goal, of course, is to use market forces to vanquish truthiness... and, well, here's hoping that it works. To talk about this new site, we've invited on its founder, Rick Hayes-Roth. Rick Hayes-Roth is the chairman and CEO of Truth Seal Corporation, and a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. In the past he has served as Chief Technology Officer for Software at Hewlett Packard, and program director for research in information processing at the Rand Corporation. He is currently the founder and chief executive of TruthMarket. Host: Chris Moone
Truthiness Fever: A conversation with Dr. Rick Hayes-Roth [audio]
No full textRick Hayes-Roth, Author of “Truthiness Fever” is a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School as well as Chairman & CEO of Truth Seal Corp., an organization that operates www.TruthSeal.com. Truth Seal’s mission is to create a market for truth telling by validating public statements, making the statements and their authors trustworthy, and rewarding TruthScouts who find evidence to falsify invalid claims. His book focuses on truth, beliefs that best match empirical evidence. Truth contrasts with truthiness, beliefs supported primarily by emotions and feelings. When political satirist Steven Colbert celebrated the rise of “truthiness,” he called attention to an important pathology in our body politic. Over the past decade, it has become increasingly common and acceptable for public figures to boost whatever beliefs they feel will help their cause. Nowadays children mostly consume misleading and harmful information. We are poisoning their information environment as dangerously as sugary foods ruin nutrition and toxins pollute air, water, and soil. Societies sometimes organize to regulate or eliminate pollutants. Lead and mercury were used for centuries before they were largely outlawed. Over the last few decades, we began to limit smog-producing gases, acid-rain components, and asthma-inducing particulates in our air. Recently the entire world has been struggling with the fact that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to higher global temperatures that kill forests, wipe out glaciers, and inundate low-lying islands and coastal areas. These problems, and others, can’t be solved unless our people understand the issues and wrestle with options. That requires operating on truth, not truthiness. However, society’s most powerful players are addicted to lying and foment truthiness fever purposefully. This book lays out a 10-Step Program for recovery from that addiction. The need is vital, and we are very short on time. Duration: 50:0
Honesty is the Best Policy, An Interview with Rick Hayes-Roth - Parts 1 and 2
No full textParts 1 and 2Untrustworthy information is an increasing threat to decision making in information environments. Rick Hayes-Roth has been studying how to detect and filter away untrustworthy information and base decisions on well-grounded claims that can improve outcomes. We interviewed him to find out more about this problem and get advice for our readers. Although there are many subtleties in the shades of truth and the intentions of speakers and listeners, Hayes-Roth finds the essential core of what you can do to ward off untrustworthy information
The Value of Truth Telling, Negative memes in the infosphere pose mortal threats, transforming lies and other offensive messages into strategic disabilities
No full textSeveral scholars have suggested that honesty, honor, fairness and other traditional values
play a vital role in making capitalism and democracy function (Fukuyama 1995; Zak
2008). Others have recognized that capitalism and democracy reward greed and reinforce
antisocial manipulators (Hayes-Roth 2011a). Some believe that enterprises can
reconstruct themselves profitably around the principles of integrity and honoring one’s
word (Jensen 2011). Our research complements their work by showing how lies
materially harm business prospects, making it possible to increase value through truth
telling. In the Internet Age, both harmful and salutary information flow at increasing
rates, amplifying the latent value of truth (Hayes-Roth 2011c). Promiscuous customers
have little loyalty to vendors and shun untrustworthy ones as too risky. The Internet will
soon offer improved mechanisms to identify liars and truth-tellers and to filter out
untrustworthy messages automatically. Businesses and other organizations will need to
seize the opportunities to significantly improve their truthfulness quotients. Quantitative
measurements of the value of truth telling will help management steer in a positive
direction
Interview of author Rick Riordan
No full textRick Riordan, author of the "Tres Navarre" series of detective novels, talks about his teaching and writing careers, his life in San Antonio, and the need to write authentically about real places, people, language, culture, and history. He discusses his characters and the situations in which he places them, his own limits in writing about social injustice from which he has not suffered, but being familiar with life in San Antonio and the multicultural environment in the community. Riordan is also known for writing the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. Riordan is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
Interview with Rick Bastasch
No full textRick Bastasch was interviewed by Michael Rupp and Jim Knight on May 10, 2017.
A lifelong Oregonian, Rick Bastasch is the author of The Oregon Water Handbook (Oregon State University Press, 2006). He worked with the Oregon Water Resources Department for over a decade, specializing in river basin planning, intergovernmental coordination, public information, and legislative analysis. He has also led recent efforts to conserve and restore the Willamette River.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/planoregon_interviews/1039/thumbnail.jp
Parent, Rick
No full textretiredCriminologist Dr. Rick Parent is a 30 year veteran of the Delta Police Department. While serving as a police officer he examined the issue of police use of deadly force and the phenomenon of Victim Precipitated Homicide, also known as Suicide by Cop. His dissertation, entitled "Aspects of Police Use of Deadly Force in North America: The Phenomenon of Victim Precipitated Homicide" was for a Doctoral degree in Criminology at Simon Fraser University.
Dr. Parent has been qualified in US and Canadian courts as an expert in police shootings and in matters related to police use of deadly force. He is currently an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology - Police Studies.
In addition to providing expert testimony, Dr. Parent is a subject-matter expert in the area of police ethics and accountability. He has provided several training sessions on this subect and is the author of the Canadian Police Knowledge Network (CPKN) course entitled: "Police Ethics and Accountability"Rick Parent worked at the Justice Institute of BC from 1995 to 1998 and from 2005 to 2008
Writers Talk Featuring Rick Elice
No full textRick Elice, co-author of the musical Jersey Boys, playing in Columbus on August 17-September 4, talks about how the idea for the musical originated and how he worked with Frank Vallie and the Four Seasons to craft the musical.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw11/Elice_Rick.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
The Principles of Co-operation
No full textA look at the basic principles of the co-operative movement listed in both English and (possibly) Innu. Rick Hayes, Managing Director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Co-operatives, discusses the principles in further detail.Funded by Donner Canada Foundation
Boy performing
No full textThis 1966 photograph taken by photographer Juanita Wilson shows a boy performing in the 18th Annual Mountain Youth Jamboree. The boy is possibly Rick Taylor from Harris High School or Mike Thompson from Lee Edwards School. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
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