“[A]t every level, more women were rated by their peers, their bosses, their direct reports, and their other associates as better overall leaders than their male counterparts — and the higher the level, the wider that gap grows.” Women were rated higher in 12 of the 16 competencies derived from 30 years of research and Zenger/Folkman’s large survey database.”
Duh: Watching 'Jersey Shore' might make you dumber, study suggests
Pew: 17 percent of last week’s news Weiner-related - Politico
Coverage of Anthony Weiner’s strange online habits made up 17 percent of all news coverage last week, making it the fourth biggest political scandal since Pew started keeping track in 2007.
It also towered over all other stories, sucking up more time than the economy or Middle East unrest, which tied for second place with 11 percent of the news hole.
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Has the Anthony Weiner scandal made members of Congress more Twitter-shy?
A new study indicates that lawmakers have dialed back on their 140-character messaging in the days since the New York congressman mistakenly sent a provocative photo to all his followers on the social networking site.
TweetCongress.org, which monitors 400 active feeds from members of Congress, found that more than 15,000 tweets were sent over a 23-day span from their accounts, starting in early May.
Democratic and Republican members averaged about 700 tweets each weekday in the two weeks leading up to Weiner’s misfired message. In the eight weekdays since, those lawmakers were sending on average only about 550 each day, a drop in activity of roughly 21%.
”“According to a new joint study from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and England’s University of Warwick, New Yorkers are the least likely of Americans to commit suicide.”
10 Most Segregated Cities in the US
1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
3. New York, New York
4. Newark, New Jersey
5. Chicago, Illinois
6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
7. Miami, Florida
8. Cleveland, Ohio
9. St. Louis, Missouri
10. Nassau-Suffolk, New York
“Most young Americans entering university this year think:
Beethoven is a dog
Michelangelo is a computer virus
Email is too slow
Czechoslovakia has never existed
Fergie is a pop singer, not a duchess
Clint Eastwood is a sensitive movie director, not Dirty Harry
John McEnroe stars in TV ads, not on the tennis court”
continue reading… Rawstory
In the end, truth will out. Won’t it?
A University of Michigan study appears to shows that facts really don’t matter.
Maybe not. Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation evenstronger.
The denial is bipartisan, though there is an interesting difference.
The participants who self-identified as conservative believed the misinformation on WMD and taxes even more strongly after being given the correction. With those two issues, the more strongly the participant cared about the topic — a factor known as salience — the stronger the backfire. The effect was slightly different on self-identified liberals: When they read corrected stories about stem cells, the corrections didn’t backfire, but the readers did still ignore the inconvenient fact that the Bush administration’s restrictions weren’t total.
continue reading, much more… thesmirkingchimp
Loneliness makes cancer ‘more likely and deadly’
Fresh evidence adds weight to suggestions that loneliness makes cancer both more likely and deadly.
Work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows social isolation tips the odds in favour of aggressive cancer growth.
Rodents kept alone developed more tumours - and tumours of a more deadly type - than rats living as a group.
The researchers put it down to stress and say the same may well be true in humans.
continue reading… bbc
“The report represents a comprehensive review of the division’s litigation activity in the Bush administration. When compared with the Clinton administration, its findings show a significant drop in the enforcement of several major antidiscrimination and voting rights laws. For example, lawsuits brought by the division to enforce laws prohibiting race or sex discrimination in employment fell from about 11 per year under President Bill Clinton to about 6 per year under President George W. Bush.”
![Sizing up where men look
When men gaze at a picture of, say, former baseball player George Brett, they aren’t just checking out his batting stance. They’re also sneaking quick glances at Brett’s crotch, according to eye-tracking researchers.
In a Web site design study, researchers at the Nielsen/Norman Group showed 255 men and women pictures of different people, including Brett and ballet dancers. Technology called “heat maps” helped reveal that men fixate on private parts-breasts and genitalia-more than women.
But faces also draw a lot of looks too, said Kara Pernice Coyne, director of research for NN Group, which conducts behavioral research to make Web sites easier to use. “Women still do [look at private parts], but it’s definitely more men,” said Coyne.
continue reading… chicagotribune
hat tip to ppg for this 2007 link](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/brooklynmutt/246260626/1/tumblr_kt7vbkHRJg1qz80ps)
Sizing up where men look
When men gaze at a picture of, say, former baseball player George Brett, they aren’t just checking out his batting stance. They’re also sneaking quick glances at Brett’s crotch, according to eye-tracking researchers.
In a Web site design study, researchers at the Nielsen/Norman Group showed 255 men and women pictures of different people, including Brett and ballet dancers. Technology called “heat maps” helped reveal that men fixate on private parts-breasts and genitalia-more than women.
But faces also draw a lot of looks too, said Kara Pernice Coyne, director of research for NN Group, which conducts behavioral research to make Web sites easier to use. “Women still do [look at private parts], but it’s definitely more men,” said Coyne.
continue reading… chicagotribune
hat tip to ppg for this 2007 link
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A new study from Emarketer says there will be 128.2 million (58% of the population) who read blogs at least monthly by 2013. Which is good, b/c they estimate there will be 37.6 million bloggers churning out content at least once a month.
And that doesn’t even touch the tweets. (Not sure about the tumbles.)
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A new study from Emarketer says there will be 128.2 million (58% of the population) who read blogs at least monthly by 2013. Which is good, b/c they estimate there will be 37.6 million bloggers churning out content at least once a month.
And that doesn’t even touch the tweets. (Not sure about the tumbles.)
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