In this colomn it is argued that investing in education, healthcare and construction is investing in local economy and society. At least, if education perceives "get ready for a smart world" (the credo of Saxion University) as more than an uncritical adaptation to the latest products of the high-tech …

Digital technology is beautiful but, unfortunately, is also incredibly unreliable. Imagine, after a night of good sleep, you enter your car where you find that the brake pedal is on the right and the accelerator pedal on the left. An update, with kind regards from Volkswagen. Or that the manufacturer …

We see what we expect to see. For example, If we 're interested in a certain type of car, "suddenly" we see many more of these cars than before. This bias confirms the correctness of our interest, hence it 's called confirmation bias. In itself this isn 't a problem, in looking through our “pink glasses" …

For many decades social sciences have been captivated by the statistical method. In itself there is nothing wrong with this method, but a serious side effect of a large fixation on surveys, likert-scales and normal distributions is that the argument is still seen mainly as opinion and therefore hardly …

De “Eigen-Kracht-Benadering” of een andere, vergelijkbare methode, vraagt om een cultuuromslag bij de burger en de professional. Daarbij komen dienst- en hulpverleners niet ver als ze opereren alsof ze op een eiland zitten. Goed met elkaar samenwerken is belangrijk. Samenwerken en het kunnen werken …

William James stated: "Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general label". It is argued that people classify to make sense of their world. By labelling (repeating) patterns, we learn to navigate through our world and through our lives. Often, …

A colomn about nurture (development) and innate brain structures. Our brain is important. A car does not drive without a motor, but the purpose of the journey is not anchored in the engine. As long as we are judged on what we do or don 't do in the world, running away on time in a conflict, for example, …

De rol van advies in mkb-financiering is cruciaal, omdat twee van de drie ondernemers gebruik maakt van extern financieel advies (Van der Veen, Van Teeffelen, Ibrahimovic en Lentz, 2015). Hoe goed zijn adviseurs op de hoogte van nieuwe financieringsvormen en het combineren daarvan? Vier typen financieel …

De rol van advies in mkb-financiering is cruciaal, omdat twee van de drie ondernemers gebruik maakt van extern financieel advies (Van der Veen, Van Teeffelen, Ibrahimovic en Lentz, 2015). Hoe goed zijn adviseurs op de hoogte van nieuwe financieringsvormen en het combineren daarvan? Vier typen financieel …

Normal is a concept that stems from two very interesting mathematical concepts: the normal distribution and the central limit theorem. People possess infinite numbers of properties. By far the most are unknown, they don’t matter to our reality. However, through our knowledge systems - perception and …