25 interesting facts #13
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Alcohol intake does not influence creative thinking performance (Benedek and Zöhrer 2020)
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Ecological and environmental pressures led to a decline in dinosaur biodiversity well before the asteroid impact (Condamine et al. 2021)
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Football players with high public status perform worse in penalty shootouts (Jordet 2009a 2009b)
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Campaigns influence election outcomes less than you think (Nickerson and Rogers 2020)
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Professional golf players are risk averse (Elmore and Urbaczewski 2020)
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Female researchers are more likely to discover female-focused ideas (Koning et al. 2021)
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Individuals more vulnerable to negative consequences of automation tend to display more support for the radical right (Anelli et al. 2021)
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Bright illusions reduce the eye's pupil (Laeng and Endestad 2012)
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Street names are more gender-biased against women in Paris than London (Bancilhon et al. 2021)
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Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit the Earth (Cardinale et al. 2012)
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Poker only contains as much skill as chess when 75% of the chess results are replaced by a coin flip (Duersch et al. 2020)
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Urbanisation produces technological change and productivity growth (Brunt and García-Peñalosa 2021)
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Humans and great apes prefer curved over sharp-angled contours (Gómez-Puerto et al. 2018, Munar et al. 2015)
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India had on average 58,000 snakebite deaths annually from 2000 to 2019 (Suraweera et al. 2020)
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For healthy consumers, replacing gluten-containing products with gluten-free foods is more expensive and do not provide additional health benefits from a nutritional perspective (Missbach et al. 2015)
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People judge slower responses as less sincere (Ziano and Wang 2021)
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The total number of Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived was ~2.5 billion individuals (Marshall et al. 2021)
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Early multidisciplinary practice, not early specialization, predicts world-class performance (Güllich et al. 2021)
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Bottlenose dolphins exhibit decades-long social memory (Bruck 2013)
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Surveys underestimate climate change skepticism (Beiser-McGrath and Bernauer 2021)
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Girls have worse average mental health than boys (Campbell et al. 2021)
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Reviewers spent more than 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years, working on academic peer reviews (Aczel et al. 2021)
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Subscription-based content creators on Patreon gain more subscribers when they remove their earnings (Crosby and McKenzie 2021)
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Changing the lunch-default to a vegetarian option is an effective way to promote sustainable food choices at conferences (Hansen et al. 2021)
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Since 2010, agriculture, logging and wildfire have caused emissions of at least 4.0 Gt of irrecoverable carbon (Noon et al. 2021)