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reading miscellanea:
"Study: Partisans treat politics like sports, valuing a team over issues"
Turns out most core voters go out to show Democrats/Republicans a lesson rather than actually caring about the issue they vote on.
Pay gap between the sexes closing for the top 1%
Netflix is adjusting its user fees based on the piracy rate in a region
This follows the trend of streaming services reducing piracy rates by providing goods at prices consumers are willing to pay for (duh). In other words, if piracy was not a feasible practice, most 'pirates' would not purchase the music/movies they pirate now if given no other option.
Paper shows how people still do not understand how statistics work
The Royal Society published a paper a year ago on how students and teachers alike continue to mis-interpret the meaning of P-Value tests and values. Furthermore, they advise people to avoid the word 'significance' in order to prevent future false discoveries.
Men fake 80 hour work weeks in corporate America
A study published in Organization Science shows how males at a global consultancy firm must lie in order to spend quality time with their families, while females have an easier time at getting time off and/or leniency to spend time with family members. While the study is not comprehensive, it speaks volumes for the work culture that exists in high level corporate America.
