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In a study titled ‘We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation’s Role in World History’, the authors conclude that most people overestimate the contribution of the country they are currently living in to world history. This is, according to the authors, evidence of national narcissism. The authors asked students in 35 countries […]

Anscombe’s quartet highlights the importance of data visualisation when interpreting the relationship between two variables. That is, a simple correlation coefficient is not sufficient to understand the relationship between two variables. We want to see the data. For a great example on the many different data patterns that can lie behind a correlation coefficient, check […]

In 2020, I wrote a post on a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that politicians who are averse to lying have lower reelection rates. In other words, politicians who are less honest are more likely to do well in politics. In brief, I found that the results in […]

Source: Figure 1 in Giorgi et al. (2022)

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