Saturday, March 9, 2019

Los Angeles county: Streetcars' influence, visible in current urban density, has not dissipated in the 60 years since the streetcar's removal; mutually reinforcing pathways of regulation & agglomerative clustering

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Vestiges of Transit: Urban Persistence at a Micro Scale. Leah Brooks and Byron Lutz. Review of Economics and Statistics, March 04, 2019. htt...

Bias Blind Spot: They rated themselves lower than others in both susceptibility to biases & personal shortcomings; belief in free will was positively associated with the susceptibility to better than average effect

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Agency and self-other asymmetries in perceived bias and shortcomings: Replications of the Bias Blind Spot and extensions linking to free wil...
Friday, March 8, 2019

A Forensic Examination of China’s National Accounts 2008-2016: Growth overstated by more than 13pct

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Chen, Wei, Xilu Chen, Chang-Tai Hseih and Zheng (Michael) Song. 2019. “A Forensic Examination of China’s National Accounts” BPEA Conference ...

Greater male variability is currently universal in internationally comparable assessments; some of this heterogeneity can be attributed to some species universal mechanism or some other social/cultural phenomenon

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Sex differences in variability across nations in reading, mathematics and science: a meta-analytic extension of Baye and Monseur (2016). Hel...

Exposure to female estrous, a natural rewarding experience, alleviates anxiety & depression, & is beneficial to recovery following transient ischemic stroke in male mice

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Exposure to female estrous is beneficial for male mice against transient ischemic stroke. Yuan Qiao, Qing Ma, Haifeng Zhai, Ya Li & Mink...

Females having a younger brother: Adult earnings are about 7 pct less in adulthood; parents have lower academic expectations for the girls, & the girls develop more traditionally feminine roles

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The Brother Earnings Penalty. Angela Cools, Eleonora Patacchini. Labour Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2019.02.009 Highlights •...

Null Effects of Game Violence, Game Difficulty, and 2D:4D digit ratio, thought to index prenatal testosterone exposure, on Aggressive Behavior

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Null Effects of Game Violence, Game Difficulty, and 2D:4D Digit Ratio on Aggressive Behavior. Joseph Hilgard et al. Psychological Science, M...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

A Replication Study: Machine Learning Models Are Capable of Predicting Sexual Orientation From Facial Images

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A Replication Study: Machine Learning Models Are Capable of Predicting Sexual Orientation From Facial Images. John Leuner. Master's thes...

“Neuromyths” (misconceptions about the brain), show a high prevalence among teachers in different countries; the teachers say they are strongly influenced by their intuitions, by what seems logical to them

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Neuromyths and Their Origin Among Teachers in Quebec. Jérémie Blanchette Sarrasin, Martin Riopel, Steve Masson. Mind, Brain, and Education, ...

After experiencing a threat to their abilities, individuals who misrepresent their performance as better than it is boost their feelings of competence, restoring positive self-evaluations

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A counterfeit competence: After threat, cheating boosts one's self-image. S. Wiley Wakeman, Celia Moore, Francesca Gino. Journal of Expe...