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Do private school students attain lower GPAs in college than "equal" public school students?
First, I realize this question is quite like this one, but I want to focus more on the college GPA and then relate it to two older studies.
There are a few decades old study which show that public school graduates perform better academically than do…
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Do a third of Italian men live with their parents?
I have heard that Italian men live with their parents as a racial stereotype joke and from some Italian friends. They say that this is true because they have seen these people in their environments or neighborhood. But really I want to know if there…
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Does perceived peer acceptance have any significant influence on adult anti-social behavior?
This question was spawned as the result of a comment on another question
I am sure there are a number of jokes {about rape}! I am not so sure
that they are told so commonly to make any difference to the rapists
though. Also, there are a number…
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Is Rapid-onset gender dysphoria real?
Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria. PLOS ONE describes ROGD as
Conclusion
Rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) describes a phenomenon where the development
of gender dysphoria…
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Does fast feedback result in greater expertise?
There are swathes of blogs and books promoting the notion that we should seek the quickest possible feedback to develop ours skill. The most prominent example I can think of comes from Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow (emphasis mine).
The…
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Does science advance "one funeral at a time"?
In an article in the Guardian about how ideas in nutrition science have advanced and have influenced dietary advice to the public, the authors quote Max Planck as having said, famously:
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its…
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Do women in all-women shops earn less then men in all-men shops?
Many women & men raise issues of equal pay for equal work, but a recent analysis of Uber Drivers showed that women earned less because of working less or driving slowly; Uber Payment system did not Discriminate between genders.
Similarly, those…
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How many people does it take to keep a secret?
On the Wikipedia entry on Vesna Voluvic, who holds the Guiness book work record on surviving the highest fall without a parachute, a conspiracy theory claiming the plane got shot by the army got debunked as follows:
One source does not support…
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Do most people like to talk about themselves?
There are numerous articles about people loving to talk about themselves.
However, my experience has been very different.
Is "everyone's favorite topic is themselves" a myth?
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Are 100 million sharks culled per year for safety reasons?
Are 100 million sharks culled per year for safety reasons?
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A woman has a 1 in 262,365 chance of being killed by a shark in her
lifetime.
In that very same lifetime she has a 1 in 6 chance of being raped.
100 million sharks are…
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Is or was Australia an egalitarian country?
Australia is often seen as an egalitarian country, or as a country which used to be egalitarian, but whose egalitarianism is under threat
From the first source:
It would be fair to say that Australia is one of the most egalitarian
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26 thousand users of Facebook list their location as Greenland
Recently, according to this map 25 680 users of Facebook list their location as Greenland. 26 000 is about half of the number of inhabitants of Greenland. If these data are reliable it says that there are 26 000 computers (or other devices with IP…
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Is Netherlands the least racist country in the world?
I have heard from my friends who are students of The Netherlands universities or are immigrants and live there with their families that this country is more welcoming to different people than the other countries in the Europe. I have searched and…
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