25 interesting facts #12
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People overestimate their own IQ by around 30 IQ points and their partner's IQ by almost 40 IQ points (Gignac and Zajenkowski 2019)
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Democratic satisfaction drops significantly when early elections are called by prime ministers or presidents (Morgan-Jones and Loveless 2021)
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Smoke alarms for children are more effective if they have an maternal voice alarm instead of a tone alarm (Smith et al. 2018)
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The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes (Reagan et al. 2016)
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People have a strong counterfactual curiosity (FitzGibbon et al. 2021)
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In the United States, while conservatives report greater needs for certainty than liberals, these needs are not a major source of political bias (Guay and Johnston 2021)
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Taxi drivers take longer routes on metered airport routes than Uber drivers, especially for nonlocal passengers (Liu et al. 2021)
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Employees who are financially dependent on tips are more likely to experience customer sexual harassment (Kundro et al. 2021)
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Nudging people to compare pigs to dogs make them less permissible of eating animals (Horne et al. 2021)
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Honey bees understand the concept of zero (Howard et al. 2018)
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There was European presence in the Americas in 1021 (Kuitems et al. 2021)
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In the United States, the introduction and marketing of OxyContin explain a substantial share of overdose deaths (Alpert et al. 2021)
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The Prohibition in Chicago consolidated the organizational elites and increased gender inequality in organized crime (Smith 2020)
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Sleep inspires insightful behaviour and creativity (Cai et al. 2009; Wagner et al. 2004)
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Hosting refugees does not increase the likelihood of new conflict, prolong existing conflict, or raise the number of violent events or casualties (Zhou and Shaver 2021)
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On Wikipedia, biographies about women are more frequently considered non-notable and nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies (Tripodi 2021)
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The very wealthy have been constructing luxury basements across certain parts of London, totaling an estimated excavated depth of 25,461 meters since 2008 (Burrows et al. 2021)
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Based on the movies, James Bond would be in danger because of tropical diseases and diarrhoea due to poor hygeine (Graumans et al. 2021)
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There is greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature (Lynas et al. 2021)
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Dogs can display jealous behaviour (Bastos et al. 2021)
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There is no evidence for systematic voter fraud in the 2020 US presidential election (Eggers et al. 2021)
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The ability to name unrelated words is a strong measure of creativity (Olson et al. 2021)
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Spontaneous face touching is an ubiquitous behavior that occurs in people up to 800 times a day (Spille et al. 2021)
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There is no consistent effect of testosterone on economic risk-taking (Stanton et al. 2021)
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Nuclear power's contribution to climate change mitigation is and will be very limited (Muellner et al. 2021)