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Russel Davies's blog is worth USD $26,125.85

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Hey, planningblog is worth more than Fallon planning blog. How on earth is that possible? They'll catch me up very soon, I'm sure.

Someone said to me last week "you don't write much about planning, do you?". I do, it's just that my political bias, which peeks out from time to time, causes a disconnect.

"According to Gibson's theory of direct perception, the array of information in our sensory receptors, including the sensory context, is all we need to perceive anything.

...the direct-perception viewpoint does not integrate the processes of intelligence, as usually conceived, with the processes of perception.

...the fundamental unit of symbolic knowledge is the concept - an idea about something that provides a means of understanding the world.

...concepts may be organized into schemas, which are mental frameworks for representing knowledge that encompass an array of interrelated concepts in a meaningful organization. For example, we might have a schema for a kitchen. It tells us the kinds of things one might find in a kitchen and where we might find them (or a planning blog, just saying!).

A problem with schemas is that they can give rise to stereotypes. We might, for example, have a schema for the kind of person we believe was responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This schema can easily generate a stereotype of certain groups of people as likely terrorists."

From Cognitive Psychology, Fourth Edition, by Robert J. Sternberg, bought in the U of M bookstore January 2006.