601. Beaver fur was a luxury commodity in the Viking Age (Brandt et al. 2022) 602. People are better able to believe in a claim once thought to be false, as opposed to unbelieving something once believed to be true (Yang et al. 2022) 603. Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated […]
Category: science
Fear of failure and performance
To what extent can we use data from a television show to make inferences about the impact of fear of failure on performance? To discuss this question, consider a recent study using data from MasterChef to examine the impact of fear of failure on performance. Here is the abstract: We use new individual-level data from […]
25 interesting facts #24
576. Beethoven’s assessments of his works are reliably associated with citation measures of aesthetic success (Kozbelt 2007) 577. On average, people underestimate how much other people appreciate being reached out to (Liu et al. 2022) 578. Hippocrates was the first to document that the heart is a muscle (Tsoucalas and Sgantzos 2017) 579. There is […]
25 interesting facts #23
551. The more people learn about terrorism, the smaller they perceive the threat of terrorism to be (Krause et al. 2022) 552. Harassment deters women and men from applying for jobs in workplaces where they are the gender minority (Folke and Rickne 2022) 553. People like music less when they think it was composed by […]
How effective is nudging? #3
In a previous post, I discussed a study by Mertens et al. (2022) showing that the average effect size of nudging is large (i.e., a Cohen’s d of 0.45). In my post, I identified several limitations in the study that led me to conclude that the average effect size presented in the study most likely […]