Random links
- The Paradox of the Free-Market Liberal
- "Over all, having a conservative personality made people lean to the left economically — with an important exception. Among people who were both highly attentive to politics and from countries in which left-right ideological conflict was prominent, like the United States, having a conservative personality was associated with holding right-wing economic views."
- De-Dynamization
- A quote from their cited paper: "… nearly every country that experienced a large democratic transition after a period of above-average growth (more than the cross-country average of 2 percent) experienced a sharp deceleration in growth in the 10 years following the democratizing transition." Is this regression to the mean or something else? Also interesting is this on the relationship between economic growth and the transition from a dictatorship to democracy.
- Cadbury Dairy Milk: why rounded chunks of chocolate taste sweeter
- "'The generalisation that has now been documented across a range of food and beverage products ... is that sweet is round while bitter is angular.' ... it should have been possible for Cadbury to reduce the sugar content in the rounder Dairy Milk a little, while consumers’ perception of the taste remained unchanged.”"
- Miscalibrations in judgements of attractiveness with cosmetics.
- "We found that men and women agree on the amount of cosmetics they find attractive, but overestimate the preferences of women and, when considering the preferences of men, overestimate even more. We also find that models' self-applied cosmetics are far in excess of individual preferences. These findings suggest that attractiveness perceptions with cosmetics are a form of pluralistic ignorance, whereby women tailor their cosmetics use to an inaccurate perception of others' preferences."