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Subjective Objectivity

May 16, 2011
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My wife recently underwent a surgical procedure. During recovery, the nurses would periodically enter the room to offer her pain medication. Each time, before they would give her the medication, they asked her to rate her pain and would refer her to a chart on the wall as a reference. You may have seen these [...]

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When You Assume…

August 5, 2010
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Recently, there was a post over at DiscoBlog on the Discover Magazine site that mentioned a study that claims that women who wax have better sex.  It reminded me how quickly we can be led astray by settling on the first assumption.  At first blush, one would assume that if you are a woman and [...]

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