On: Economics education can shift people in a selfish direction?

[eevilspock]

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.]

[lutusp → eevilspock]

> 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