by John M. Jennings | Aug 16, 2023 | Sociology, The IFOD
A recent study out of Sweden found that intelligence is correlated to higher earnings, but only up to a point. Sweden has compulsory military service for males, and intake into the military includes a battery of psychological and cognitive tests. The researchers...
by John M. Jennings | Jul 6, 2023 | Health, Sociology, The IFOD
My wife, Tammy, was flying from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles this week after dropping my daughter off to study aboard at the University of Tasmania when a passenger two rows in front of her died. The decedent’s wife told the flight attendants that he had...
by John M. Jennings | May 23, 2023 | Sociology, The IFOD
All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there. -Charlie Munger In 2019, students at the University of California San Diego examined whether the top causes of death lined up with what people search for on Google and what is reported by...
by John M. Jennings | Apr 25, 2023 | Sociology, The IFOD
Imagine this scenario: you’re a pedestrian waiting to cross a street, and there are no cars coming, but the indicator is displaying a “Don’t Walk” image. Do you cross or do you wait? What if there is another person there — would their...
by John M. Jennings | May 7, 2019 | Mental Models, Networks, Sociology
I am intrigued by paradoxes and came across a very interesting one called the Friendship Paradox which states: On average, your friends have more friends than you do. How can this be true? Its a function of the attributes of social networks. According to the MIT...
