Society & Education

9 papers

If it rains on the Sunday before a big election, Republican turnout on Tuesday takes a massive hit.

Practical Magic socarxiv | Mar 18

Human lifespan and female fertility are moving up at the exact same pace, like they’re both set to the same internal clock.

Nature Is Weird socarxiv | Mar 18

People aren't homeschooling because of the curriculum as much as they are because of the racial makeup of the school's bosses.

Paradigm Challenge socarxiv | Mar 17

For-profit medical schools in the Caribbean are 'shopping' for regulators in places like Kazakhstan just to dodge quality rules.

Practical Magic edarxiv | Mar 17

Waiving academic warnings during the pandemic to 'help' students actually backfired and led to way more people failing later on.

Nature Is Weird edarxiv | Mar 17

That 'scientific certainty' in big medical studies? Sometimes it’s just because the researchers are buddies, not because the data is actually solid.

Paradigm Challenge socarxiv | Mar 16

Getting rid of haggling can actually scare off customers, even if the new "fixed" price is cheaper than what they were paying before.

Paradigm Challenge socarxiv | Mar 13

Planting native flowers might actually be worse for city birds and bees than those "exotic" gardens people love to hate.

Practical Magic socarxiv | Mar 13

Trade wars aren't actually stopping global trade because individual companies are just ignoring the politics and doing their own thing.

Practical Magic socarxiv | Mar 13