Sunday, January 2, 2022

IMF magazine publishing paper about a replacement for GDP or the HDI with a less arbitrary (they believe) personal well-being index

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Authors in 2021 re-publishing their cherished table from 2014... Their proposal is to replace the very defective GDP index with a composite ...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Sweden: Intellectual disability was substantially heritable with 93pct–98pct of the variance in liability attributed to genetic influences

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Familial risk and heritability of intellectual disability: a population-based cohort study in Sweden. Paul Lichtenstein et al. Journal of Ch...

Gender differences in fresh vegetable intake from 1979 to 2017 in low sex-inequality Finland: The magnitude of the gap between genders doubled across the study period

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Kähäri, A. (2021), "Gender differences in fresh vegetable intake from 1979 to 2017 in Finland", British Food Journal, Dec 28 2021....

There exist fundamental geometrical principles that result from the inherent interplay between movement and organisms’ internal representation of space: Animals spontaneously reduce the world into a series of sequential binary decisions

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The geometry of decision-making in individuals and collectives. Vivek H. Sridhare et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, De...

Why It Is Hard to Be Happy with What We Have... Habituation to positive changes in lifestyle and constant comparisons leave us unhappy even in the best of conditions. Why?

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Dubey, Rachit, Tom Griffiths, and Peter Dayan. 2021. “Why It Is Hard to Be Happy with What We Have: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective.” P...

US Economists: Increased consensus on many economic propositions, specifically the appropriate role of fiscal policy in macroeconomics and issues surrounding income distribution; another area of consensus is concern with climate change

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Consensus among economists 2020 – A sharpening of the picture. Doris Geide-Stevenson and Alvaro La Parra Perez. Weber State Univ, December 2...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Airbnb: Within the same neighborhood, hosts from minority groups charge 3.2 percent less for comparable listings

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Laouénan, Morgane, and Roland Rathelot. 2022. "Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb." American Econo...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a decline in reported injuries related to high-heeled shoes among US women

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Pandemic-related decline in injuries related to women wearing high-heeled shoes: Analysis of U.S. data for 2016-2020. Philip N. Cohen. medRx...

The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works

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The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works. Steven L. Franconeri et al. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, December 15,...

A Bioecological Theory of Sexual Harassment of Girls

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A Bioecological Theory of Sexual Harassment of Girls: Research Synthesis and Proposed Model. Christia Spears Brown, Sharla D. Biefeld, Nan E...

Women avoid asking for more time to complete work tasks, even when deadlines are explicitly adjustable, undermining their well-being and task performance

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Extension request avoidance predicts greater time stress among women. Ashley V. Whillans et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...

Many things we find easy (like perception) are extremely hard to implement in machines, whereas many things we find hard (like complex math) are relatively easy; seems we have complex evolved brain specializations for the former but not the latter

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think. Melanie Mitchell. Santa Fe Institute, Dec 2021. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871.pdf Abstract: Since its beg...

Men held less negative attitudes than women toward former romantic partners in samples of heterosexual respondents

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Grüning, David J., Anna-Lena Loose, and Joachim I. Krueger. 2021. “Hard Feelings: Predicting Attitudes Toward Former Romantic Partners.” Psy...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

The Political Impact of Immigration: An increase in high-skilled immigrants decreases the share of Republican votes, while an inflow of low-skilled immigrants increases it

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Mayda, Anna Maria, Giovanni Peri, and Walter Steingress. 2022. "The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States....

Teaching children that the world is a bad place predicts less success, less job and life satisfaction, worse health, dramatically less flourishing, more negative emotion, more depression, and increased suicide attempts

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Parents think—incorrectly—that teaching their children that the world is a bad place is likely best for them. Jeremy D. W. Clifton & Pet...

We feel that we perceive events in the environment as they unfold in real-time, but this mode of perception is impossible to implement due to biological constraints such as neural transmission delays; predictive mechanisms compensate these constraints

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Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past. Hinze Hogendoorn. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, December 29 2021. ...

Individuals who are more receptive to opposing views do not change their minds more frequently than those who wear blinkers

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Receptiveness to Opposing Views: Conceptualization and Integrative Review. Julia A. Minson, Frances S. Chen. Personality and Social Psycholo...

The nervous system is a product of evolution, that is, it was constructed through a long series of modifications, within the strong constraints of heredity, and continuously subjected to intense selection pressures

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Neuroscience needs evolution. Paul Cisek and Benjamin Y. Hayden. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Dec...