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Re:Economics education can shift people in a selfish direction? by eevilspock on Sunday August 31, 2014 @04:51PM (#8250337)
It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And here on HN, it's the dominant ideology. It will be hard to achieve fair open-minded discourse on this.

[thanks lutusp for the spelling correction.]

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Re:Economics education can shift people in a selfish direction? by lutusp on Sunday August 31, 2014 @05:05PM (#8250377)
> It's called a self-fulfilling prophesy [sic].

This is another error I'm seeing more and more often.

* Prophesy (verb): to predict.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prophesy

* Prophecy (noun): a prediction.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prophecy

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