25 interesting facts #10
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People scoring higher in narcissism participate more in politics (Fazekas and Hatemi 2021)
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Hitler’s speeches had a negligible impact on the Nazis’ electoral fortunes (Selb and Munzert 2018)
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People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (Ellis et al. 2021)
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Introverted people listen to more punk music than extroverted people (Anderson et al. 2020)
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The readability of scientific texts is decreasing over time (Plavén-Sigray et al. 2017)
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Pigeons can be trained to detect cancer in medical images (Levenson et al. 2015)
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A moderate daily coffee intake does not cause dehydration (Killer et al. 2014)
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Carpenter bees live in groups because of the energetic costs of nest construction (Ostwald et al. 2021)
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After the Harvey Weinstein scandal, producers previously associated with Weinstein were about 35-percent more likely to work with female writers (Zhang and Luo 2021)
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Children relatively old at school are more popular (van Aalst and van Tubergen 2021)
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Academics write unclearly because they forget that they know more about their research than readers (Warren et al. 2021)
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Passengers paid $23 to prevent a stranger from sitting next to them on the plane during the COVID-19 pandemic (Hyman and Savage 2021)
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In the American Civil War, the leading cause of death among soldiers was diarrhea (Bollet 1992)
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The news media portrays violence by Islamist extremists as terrorism more often than attacks by right- or left-wing extremists (Hase 2021)
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Self-reported digital media use is rarely an accurate reflection of actual media use (Parry et al. 2021)
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70-80% of the Tutsi population died in the in the 1994 Rwanda genocide (Verpoorten 2020)
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There are ∼50 billion individual birds in the world at present (Callaghan et al. 2021)
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Exposure to heat waves increases discriminatory behavior toward outgroups (Choi et al. 2021)
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Employers discriminate against overweight and obese employees (Mukhopadhyay 2021)
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Too many confidence intervals in tests of mediation just exclude zero (Götz et al. 2020)
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Strict voter ID requirements have no effect on voter fraud (Cantoni and Pons 2021)
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Mothers regard their own baby's fecal smell as less disgusting than that from someone else's baby (Case et al. 2006)
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In Indonesia, women with taller husbands are happier (Sohn 2016)
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Many people believe diversification in investments increases the volatility of a portfolio (Reinholtz et al. 2021)
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In the US, pornography use trended downward over the COVID-19 pandemic (Grubbs et al. 2021)