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September 15, 2016Are Good Looking People Jerks?
Why do good-looking people seem more likely to be jerks? 
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| Social Science - Thursday September 15th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
The Simple Solution to Traffic
(via CGP Grey) The way we can make traffic disappear. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Wednesday August 31st, 2016 | Send to a Friend
Why You Shouldn't Drive Slowly in the Left Lane
(via Vox) Can we all agree that the left lane is for passing, please? Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Friday August 26th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
Is Most Published Research Wrong?
(via Veritasium) Mounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Thursday August 11th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
The Effects of Medicaid Expansion
(via Healthcare Triage) So often, when we implement new policy, I wish we had better ways to capture its effects so that we could expand our knowledge base as to how decisions change health and health care. The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, and its older brother the RAND HIE, were RCTs designed to look at how insurance affected utilization and health. While these were impressive studies, they had their flaws. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Friday July 22nd, 2016 | Send to a Friend
Will Having A "Wingman" Help You Get A Date?
AsapSCIENCE explores relationships throughout the animal kingdom to uncover if looking for mates with a friend is better than flying solo. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Wednesday May 25th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
How Single Women Are Transforming America
(via The Atlantic) In her book, All the Single Ladies, Rebecca Traister traces the long history of marriage and its varied purposes in the United States. She also argues that the unprecedented rise in independent, unmarried women demands shifts in power dynamics and policy. It’s completely revolutionary, Traister explains in this animated interview, for more young women to be unmarried than not. In the 1800s, Susan B. Anthony wrote: “In women's transition from subject to sovereign, there must needs be an era of self-sustained, self-supported homes.” Traister says that her prediction was correct, and that this has led to what Anthony once described as an "epoch of single women" in America.
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| Social Science - Tuesday May 10th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
The Kids Today... Are Better Than Ever
(via HC Triage) Aaron has three kids, age 14, 12, and almost 10. They’re awesome, if I do say so myself. So he’s not one of those people who thinks that kids are going to hell in a hand basket. If you read mass media, however, you’d think that kids were the worst we’ve ever seen. It’s like everyone is that proverbial old man shaking his fist at the sky, shouting “get off my lawn!”They’re wrong. So wrong. And even though we’ve done episodes like this before, new data exist. So once again – why kids today are so awesome is the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Monday March 14th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
Simpson's Paradox: How Statistics Can Be Misleading
(via TEDEd) Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the results completely upside down. Mark Liddell investigates Simpson’s paradox. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Friday January 15th, 2016 | Send to a Friend
Francis Is Not the First Pro-Science Pope
(via D-News) Science and religion don’t often go hand in hand but Pope Francis has spoken on the importance of science. Will his views change how religion and science interact? Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Social Science - Wednesday September 23rd, 2015 | Send to a Friend