Think Again

middle schoolers score higher
: Guido Schwerdt and Amelie C. Wupperman, “Is Traditional
Teaching Really All That Bad? A Within-Student Between-Subject Approach,” Economics of
Education Review 30 (2011): 365–79.

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enter an “experience machine”
: Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic
Books, 1974).
“I do my thinking through the courses I give”
: Asahina Robert, “The Inquisitive Robert Nozick,”
New York Times, September 20, 1981, 
www.nytimes.com/1981/09/20/books/the-inquisitive-
robert-nozick.html
.
“Presenting a completely polished”
: Ken Gewertz, “Philosopher Nozick Dies at 63,” Harvard
Gazette, January 17, 2002, 
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/01/philosopher-nozick-dies-at-
63
; see also Hilary Putnam et al., “Robert Nozick: Memorial Minute,” Harvard Gazette, May 6,
2004, 
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/05/robert-nozick
.
most of us would ditch the machine
: Felipe De Brigard, “If You Like It, Does It Matter If It’s
Real?,” Philosophical Psychology 23 (2010): 43–57.
perfectionists are more likely
: Joachim Stoeber and Kathleen Otto, “Positive Conceptions of
Perfectionism: Approaches, Evidence, Challenges,” Personality and Social Psychology Review
10 (2006): 295–319.
they don’t perform any better
: Dana Harari et al., “Is Perfect Good? A Meta-analysis of
Perfectionism in the Workplace,” Journal of Applied Psychology 103 (2018): 1121–44.
grades are not a strong predictor
: Philip L. Roth et al., “Meta-analyzing the Relationship between
Grades and Job Performance,” Journal of Applied Psychology 81 (1996): 548–56.