Glenn Fleishman argues that bad data leads to a basic misunderstanding about the risks to children from strangers: As with most crime and violence, children are exposed to the greatest risk either because of family members or their own choices. More here.
Maia Szalavitz at substance.com leverages a range of statistics to argue that the best treatment for addiction is ageing: the average alcohol addiction is resolved within 15 years. Heroin addictions tend to last as long as alcoholism, but prescription opioid problems, on average, last five years. In these large samples, which are drawn from the…
Consumption of cheese and bedsheet-tangle death, r=0.94.
How to measure the effect that price has on perceptions of pleasure? Although researchers have used fMRI scans in recent years to gauge brain activity, the study is one of the first to test subjects as they swallow liquid—in this case, wine—through a pump attached to their mouths More here. This research was supported with…
Some questionable attribution, but an enjoyable jaunt through Europe’s ever changing borders at a thousand years per minute here.
At ‘Africa Is A Country’, Siddhartha Mitter discusses Max Fisher‘s article ‘A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries’, derived from World Values Survey data: We are left with a shiny color-coded “fascinating map” on the Washington Post site that sends a strong message of Western, Anglo-Saxon moral superiority, assorted with…