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Pop culture TV (specifically Simpsons) impact on "Jingle Bell, Batman Smells"....

US version: "Robin laid an egg."
UK version: "Robin flew away."

The US version became almost dominant in the UK in the 90s... and this guy thinks (and I think correctly) it's because of the Simpsons.

Forward to about 11 minutes for results. The first 11 minutes is just him explaining the methodology and showing some interesting outlier results (pretty interesting, but tangential)

American soft power baby.

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03-26-2021 , 02:47 PM

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I really enjoyed that. Great use of 'tag' as a control group

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04-01-2021 , 12:20 AM

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Understanding why different nations have different homicide and suicide rates has been of interest to scholars, policy makers and the general public for years. Multiple theories have been offered, related to the economy, presence of guns and even exposure to violence in video games. In the current study, several factors were considered in combination across a sample of 92 countries. These included income inequality (Gini index), Human Capital Index (education and employment), per capita gun ownership and per capita expenditure on video games. Results suggest that economic factors primarily were related to homicide and suicide cross‐nationally. Video game consumption was not a major indicative factor (other than a small negative relationship with homicides). More surprisingly, per capita gun ownership was not an indicator factor cross‐nationally. The results suggest that a focus on economic factors and income inequality are most likely to bear fruit regarding reduction of violence and suicide.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijop.12760

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09-11-2021 , 06:08 PM

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Study: Left-wing authoritarians share key psychological traits with far right

People with extreme political views that favor authoritarianism—whether they are on the far left or the far right—have surprisingly similar behaviors and psychological characteristics, a new study finds.

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published the research by psychologists at Emory University—the first comprehensive look at left-wing authoritarianism.

"We took the long history of research into right-wing authoritarianism and used insights from that to develop a conceptional framework and measures to test for authoritarianism in the political left," says Thomas Costello, an Emory Ph.D. student of psychology and first author of the study. "We found that in terms of their psychological characteristics and their actual behaviors, left-wing authoritarians are extremely similar to authoritarians on the right."

Horseshoe theory.

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09-21-2021 , 07:29 PM

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Driving by. Since this thread is on the front page I'm a bump it. This isn't academic research, but it's one of the more interesting articles I've read recently:

Why is the labor share of income declining? An informal meta-analysis

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Seven years ago, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century landed on coffee tables across the English-speaking world. With his proclamations about the rise of the rentier class, newfound attention was devoted to the divergent incomes of laborers and capitalists. Google trends data confirms the post-2008 surge in focus upon terms like inequality, labor income, and the median wage. Within this broad category of “concerns about the income distribution,” there are three primary issues:

1) The declining labor share of income.

2) Rising income inequality.

3) The growing gap between productivity and the median-wage.

Each of these phenomena deserves its own investigation; here I’m going to focus on the first issue — labor’s share of income — though there is inescapable entanglement between all three.

What is the “labor share of income”? It is Marx’s favorite economic statistic: it indexes the division in economic reward between toiling labor and idle, acquisitive capital. The idea being that all of the income in an economy should be divisible between that which accrues to capital, and that which accrues to labor....

Compared to income inequality or the gap between pay and productivity, the labor share is a less important indicator of people’s actual economic livelihood. Even if labor takes in a decreasing share of national income, if everyone holds more stocks, or the government gives out increased benefits to all, it might be that no one is worse off than they were in the previous status quo. Income inequality (if you take into account taxes and transfers) is a measure of who gets what in the outcome of the economic production process. Conversely, the labor share can be thought of as a way of thinking about the structure of economic production. It tells us how different inputs are used to produce all the goods and services that make our world spin. If your goal is purely to “understand how the economy works,” the labor share is more informative.

From a policy-making perspective, learning about the labor share helps one think about how taxes and transfers should be designed so as to achieve a desired realization of inequality. It is an input into the system of “what determines people’s economic well-being”; an input that should be coordinated with the levers policy-makers can pull.

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09-21-2021 , 07:32 PM

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No comment on the article, but good to see you my man. Drive by more.

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09-21-2021 , 07:37 PM

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I dunno, I'm pretty busy playing video games and you guys are kinda mean imo. Not having opinions on all this bullshit is also very relaxing .

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09-21-2021 , 07:43 PM

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I dunno, I'm pretty busy playing video games and you guys are kinda mean imo. Not having opinions on all this bullshit is also very relaxing .

Not sure who "you guys" are, but doubt I'm in that group. Regardless, re video games -

Apparently there is a big scam going on right now to create a bubble for vintage games like Mario Bros etc. There are a small group of people who have created a bunch of shell companies, and they are essentially auctioning off these games to each other and driving up the price, creating a fake bubble. Eventually someone is going to buy a worthless Nintendo cartridge for like 1m+ and get left holding the bag. Watch out.

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09-23-2021 , 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by well named

Driving by. Since this thread is on the front page I'm a bump it.

Nice to see you. Sounds like life is treating you well. But playing video games? So much for my theory that you were off writing a script to reflash human bios with.

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This isn't academic research, but it's one of the more interesting articles I've read recently:

Why is the labor share of income declining? An informal meta-analysis

Good read. I agree with a lot of the points but there's a foundational one I don't:

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The idea being that all of the income in an economy should be divisible between that which accrues to capital, and that which accrues to labor.

GDP is not a measure of "all the income in an economy." Despite the name GDP isn't referring to gross income but rather net when taking into account the entire economic cycle involved in the production of final goods. It does so by factoring out the income generated by the production of the intermediate goods needed to produce final goods. I'm not saying it's wrong; just wrong to think it's saying more than it is, which leads to a lot of issues when it comes to policy as with Piketty's claim that capital accumulation depresses wages or Solow's model for that matter which discounts the effect of capital accumulation on economic growth.

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09-23-2021 , 06:08 PM

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Yah I think you're right. To be fair, the next paragraph begins

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In practice, the economy doesn’t quite work in such a stylized manner.

I think to some extent he was just trying to situate the topic in an intellectual history, i.e. its importance in Marx.

On a different topic, I also really like this one:

Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention

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What is the role of informal social interactions in invention? Scholars in many different fields recognize that interpersonal communication is important for the creation of new ideas, from urban economics and economic growth to management and sociology. But quantifying the importance of informal interactions on the rate and direction of inventive activity, let alone understanding why they are important or how informal social networks respond to shocks, has proven difficult. As Breschi and Lissoni (2009, p. 442) put it, “the role of social ties as carriers of localized knowledge spillovers has been more often assumed than demonstrated.” In this paper, I investigate a massive disruption of social networks from U.S. history: alcohol prohibition.

The enactment of state-level prohibition laws differentially treatedcounties depending on whether those counties were wet or dry prior to prohibition. After the imposition of state-level prohibition, previously wet counties had 8-18% fewerpatents per year relative to consistently dry counties. The effect was largest in the first three years after the imposition of prohibition and rebounds thereafter. The effect was smaller for groups that were less likely to frequent saloons, namely women and particular ethnic groups. Next, I use the imposition of prohibition to document the sensitivity of collaboration patterns to shocks to the informal social network. As individuals rebuilt their networks following prohibition, they connected with new individuals and patented in new technology classes. Thus, while prohibition had only a temporary effect on the rate of invention, it had a lasting effect on the direction of inventive activity.

It reminds me of Becker talking about the value of finding interesting data sets. I can't wait to see what novel ways people find in the future to measure effects of growth in social media.

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09-24-2021 , 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by well named

It reminds me of Becker talking about the value of finding interesting data sets. I can't wait to see what novel ways people find in the future to measure effects of growth in social media.

Since it appears The Human Brain's Memory Could Store the Entire Internet, the potential is unimaginable. The big bottleneck with social media at present is written communication; it's like two supercomputers communicating via dial-up. But to your point about novel innovation, since every new idea is a combination of two or more old ideas, computers have a huge advantage grinding out all the idea (word) combinations. The real challenge there is filtering out all the randomly generated useless ideas from the useful. But with some filtering assistance from AI, I'm thinking in the not to distant future humans will be relegated to the role of detecting the signal combination lying between the noise combinations of tooth-pasta and tooth-pastel, etc^∞.

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09-24-2021 , 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by John21

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10-26-2021 , 04:09 PM

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People Mistake the Internet's Knowledge for their Own

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People frequently search the internet for information. Eight experiments (n = 1,917) provide evidence that when people “Google” for online information, they fail to accurately distinguish between knowledge stored internally—in their own memories—and knowledge stored externally—on the internet. Relative to those using only their own knowledge, people who use Google to answer general knowledge questions are not only more confident in their ability to access external information; they are also more confident in their own ability to think and remember. Moreover, those who use Google predict that they will know more in the future without the help of the internet, an erroneous belief that both indicates misattribution of prior knowledge and highlights a practically important consequence of this misattribution: overconfidence when the internet is no longer available.

I feel attacked.

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10-27-2021 , 03:30 AM

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Ouch, I felt that.

On the anecdotal level, I think my ability to recall details surrounding knowledge has declined. I don't know if it is caused by the ease of looking up information, but it wouldn't surprise me if it contributed.

There is also the "Wait, did I see this on QI or did I read it in a study?"-effect.

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10-27-2021 , 12:39 PM

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I would definitely prefer to have seen it on QI

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10-27-2021 , 12:51 PM

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Same.

No longer need to focus to remember directions or to use any intellect to discern where things are. Just use google maps.

No longer need to remember any phone numbers of addresses or even birthdays. Just plug them in somewhere and access as needed.

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Electronic and Conventional Cigarette Use in South Korean Adolescents

Yeji Lee 1 , Kang-Sook Lee 2

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PMID: 30638103
DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2018.1552301

Abstract

Background: The prevalence of Korean adolescents with depression was 25.1% in 2017, and the suicide rate among Korean teens increased from 4.2 deaths per 100,000 in 2015 to 4.9 deaths per 100,000 in 2016, suggesting that a high prevalence of depression and suicide among adolescents is a serious social problem in South Korea. Owing to the rapid growth of e-cigarettes in the last several years, it is important for research on smoking and mental health to distinguish different uses of tobacco products.
Objectives: To examine the relationship between depression and suicidality among Korean adolescents, classified into nonusers, conventional-cigarette-only users, e-cigarette-only users, and dual users.
Methods: Data were examined from the 2017 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey. The study included 62,276 students. A multivariate logistic regression was performed to assess the association of depression and suicidality with electronic and conventional cigarette use.
Results: There were significant differences among the users: dual users had a higher prevalence of depression and suicidality for both lifetime and current use; e-cigarette-only users had higher levels of depression and suicidality than nonusers; and among female adolescents, conventional-cigarette-only users, e-cigarette-only users, and dual users had a higher prevalence of depression and suicidality than male adolescents.
Conclusions: This is the first study to assess the association of depression and suicidality with conventional and e-cigarette use using a nationally representative Korean adolescent sample. These findings suggest an urgent need for evaluation of and intervention for e-cigarette use by health professionals providing smoking cessation programs for adolescents.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30638103/

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/new...ent-depression

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09-05-2022 , 06:56 PM

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[Health-tech Korea] Ybrain headband takes aim at depression

Ybrain’s headband being used for clinical study at Harvard Medical School, set for EMA, FDA approval

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170618000154

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