Category: Paper analysis
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Interruptions, gender, social media, and confirmation bias
Interruptions are common in most conversations, but is there are general trend among those talking as to who interrupts whom? Recently David Schmitt tweeted about a paper called “Influence of Communication Partner’s Gender on Language” (Hancock & Rubin, 2014). It gained some traction as it featured a graph purporting to show women interrupt other women more than men. It…
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Collection of criticisms of Adam Perkins’ ‘The Welfare Trait’
In late 2015, Dr Adam Perkins published his book called ‘The Welfare Trait’. The main crux of his argument was that each generation who is supported by the welfare state becomes more work-shy. He also argued that the welfare state increased the number of children born to households where neither parent works. His solution is…
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When sex doesn’t sell
The idea of using “sex” or “sex appeal” to help sell a product is not new. It’s been used to sell alcohol, cars, jeans, perfume, sports shoes, the list is almost endless (the fact that it is almost exclusively a heterosexual males definition of “sex appeal”, especially with cars and alcohol, is perhaps rather damning…
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