526. A worldwide assembly size for a lower chamber could be approximately 2000 seats (Colomer 2014) 527. Consumer-posted photos on Yelp are strong predictors of restaurant survival (Zhang and Luo 2022) 528. More than two million kmĀ² of wilderness were lost from 2000 to 2018 (Mu et al. 2022) 529. The creme-heavy side is uniformly […]
Category: science
Wolf attacks predict … far-right voting?
A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that ‘wolf attacks predict far-right voting’ – at least in Germany. The findings are statistically significant, the effect sizes are (too?) large, and there is even a pre-registration of the study. Yet, I see a few red flags (in addition to […]
The discussion section
Scientific studies tend to follow the same logical structure. Introduction, theory, method, results, discussion, conclusion. Easy-peasy. Sometimes the sections have other names or are merged together, e.g., “Discussion and concluding remarks”, and for the less serious journals (such as PNAS), they save the methodology for the footnote-size section at the end of the paper. I […]
The many causes of Brexit
In 2018, I wrote a critical blog post about a study that examined whether welfare reforms caused Brexit. The study, now published in American Economic Review, concludes “that the EU referendum could have resulted in a Remain victory had it not been for austerity”. (It is by the same researcher who tried to make people […]
25 interesting facts #21
501. Tigers have experienced little evolutionary pressure to evolve green coloration and they appear green to deer (because deer are dichromats) (Fennell et al. 2019) 502. In the United States, Holocaust survivors are more supportive of helping refugees (Wayne and Zhukov 2022) 503. There is a talisman effect in insurance, i.e., consumers who have an […]