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	<title>The Happy Curmudgeon &#187; Bacal&#8217;s Laws</title>
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		<title>Bacal&#8217;s Laws: Popularity Makes Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, that&#8217;s the short version. Here&#8217;s the long one. Any opinion, value, product or service that achieves critical mass in terms of popularity will therefor become true (or false), or valuable, or not valuable (you get the idea) REGARDLESS of &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/bacal-s-laws/bacals-laws-popularity-makes-truth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bacal&#8217;s Law of Consulting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;m the author of The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide To Consulting, which is now out of print. I&#8217;m still interested in the consulting business, and recently came across a conversation with a &#8220;consultant&#8221; stating that organizations &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-and-consulting-business/bacals-law-of-consulting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bacal&#8217;s Law of Meaningless Utterances #2: Fortune Cookie Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fortune cookie talk involves a phrase which a) sounds a lot like the generic sayings one gets from opening a fortune cookie (no insult to the cookies intended) ; b) sounds profound (and isn&#8217;t), and c) actually means nothing if &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/bacal-s-laws/bacals-law-of-meaningless-utterances-2-fortune-cookie-talk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bacal&#8217;s Law of Multicausation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 02:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For any phenomenon there will be a multitude of factors that caused the phenomenon. Therefore, any attempt to explain that phenomenon by invoking a single variable will always be wrong, and worse, misleading. This is an exceedingly important element. We &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-and-consulting-business/bacals-law-of-multicausation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bacal&#8217;s Law: The only people who can be fooled by statistics&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;are people who are ignorant about statistics. There&#8217;s an old saw that goes: There are lies, damn lies and statistics, implying that statistics can be manipulated to &#8220;prove anything&#8221;. Not true. The only people who can be fooled by statistical &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/bacal-s-laws/bacals-law-the-only-people-who-can-be-fooled-by-statistics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bacal&#8217;s Laws: From 20 Feet Away Everyone Seems Normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a deceptively simple concept that affects much of our lives. It explains that from a distance, or with people we don&#8217;t know well (and we may not know many people well) everyone seems psychologically intact, or &#8220;normal&#8221;. Until &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/bacals-laws-from-20-feet-away-everyone-seems-normal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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