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Facebook Rigs News Feeds to Study Your Emotions

Inside Facebook's Secret Mood Experiment

Jun 29, 2014 3:10 PM CDT

Inside Facebook's Secret Mood Experiment

Critics say 2012 study was immoral and proves nothing

(Newser) - A study that altered News Feeds on Facebook claims to show that even online emotions are contagious, NPR reports—but the real story may be that Facebook manipulated News Feeds at all. In the study , researchers played with more than 600,000 users' feeds for a week in 2012, showing...

Men's IQ Easier to Spot
Than Women's

study says

Mar 31, 2014 7:40 PM CDT

Men's IQ Easier to Spot Than Women's

Study asks people to guess IQ by looking at faces

(Newser) - It's easier to guess men's intelligence than women's just by looking at their faces—maybe because we're so distracted by female beauty, according to a new study . Czech researchers gave IQ tests to 80 male and female students, took photos of them, and asked 160 students...

Study: Repealing Gun Law Led to More Murders

Feb 17, 2014 3:03 PM CST

Study: Repealing Gun Law Led to More Murders

Johns Hopkins study cites spike in Missouri

(Newser) - It turns out that when you make it easier to buy guns, more people wind up getting killed with guns. That's the conclusion researchers from John Hopkins University came to after studying the effects of Missouri's 2007 repeal of its "permit-to-purchase" law, which required a local sheriff...

Voice Votes Don't Work: Study

Feb 7, 2014 1:17 PM CST

Voice Votes Don't Work: Study

Loudest people, not the most people, win

(Newser) - Let's say you've got 22,000 people in a room, and you need them to quickly decide on something. What do you do? Well, at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the chairman used a practice common at all levels of government: a voice vote. It's a simple...

Nuts Make You Live Longer*

Nov 21, 2013 11:25 AM CST

Nuts Make You Live Longer*

*Says study funded by nut industry

(Newser) - If you like snacking on nuts, a team of Harvard researchers has some very good news: That might just make you less likely to die. Well, OK, so technically everyone is 100% likely to die, but in a study of 118,000 people, those who ate a serving of nuts...

Scientists
Come Up With
'Law of Urination'

Oct 18, 2013 4:04 PM CDT

Scientists Come Up With 'Law of Urination'

Elephants pee as quickly as rats, study finds

(Newser) - Ever imagined a peeing contest between animals of various shapes and sizes? Probably not, but scientists studying the matter say that mammals big and small empty their bladders at about the same speed, New Scientist reports. More specifically, experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have clocked the...

Do You 'Like' Freely? Not According to This Study

Online 'Likes': Just People Copycatting Each Other

study says

Aug 9, 2013 6:09 PM CDT

Online 'Likes': Just People Copycatting Each Other

Comments given a fake 'like' influenced future voters: study

(Newser) - What's in a "like"? Well, a good deal of influence over how other people will perceive something, the New York Times reports. A study that manipulated positive and negative reactions to website comments found that one "like" prompted people to follow suit, while negative votes had...

Only 4% Survive Fatal
US Plane Accidents

STUDY SAYS

Aug 9, 2013 3:30 PM CDT

Only 4% Survive Fatal US Plane Accidents

Of such accidents between Jan. 1, 2000, and July 10, 2013

(Newser) - Plane crashes may be on the decline, but your chance of surviving a fatal accident isn't much better than it was in the 1970s, according to a USA Today analysis of Aviation Safety Network data. What its number-crunching found:

It looked at fatal accidents worldwide from Jan. 1, 1970

...

Holocaust Survivors
Live Longer—Among Men

study says

Aug 7, 2013 3:48 PM CDT

Holocaust Survivors Live Longer—Among Men

Study looked at 55K emigrants from Poland to Israel

(Newser) - Think Holocaust victims suffer from survivor's guilt? Maybe, but according to a new study, Holocaust survivors live an average of 6 months longer than those who avoided the Nazi menace, Pacific Standard reports. Among 55,220 emigrants from Poland to modern-day Israel, men who lived in Europe between 1939...

McDonald's Is Most
Visited Business
in America

study says

May 5, 2013 2:30 PM CDT

McDonald's Is Most Visited Business in America

Nearly half of US consumers visited at least once last month, says study

(Newser) - Just how popular are the golden arches? So popular that nearly half of US consumers visited them last month, according to a new study spotted by the Consumerist . The study, from the new Placed Insights service, sought to determine which businesses Americans visit most. Fast food dominates the list, but...

Broad-Faced
Guys Are Better
at Baseball

Study Says

Apr 10, 2013 12:05 PM CDT

Broad-Faced Guys Are Better at Baseball

Japanese study finds correlation between face size, home run totals

(Newser) - If baseball players actually looked like their bobbleheads, they'd be amazing. Or at least, that's what a new study suggests. Researchers at Goldsmiths, University of London studied the facial dimensions of all Japanese players to log more than 10 games over the past two seasons, and found that...

Not Having Kids
Might Kill You

study says

Dec 6, 2012 1:19 PM CST

Not Having Kids Might Kill You

Being childless increases risk of premature death, researchers say

(Newser) - You might swear that your kids are taking years off your life, but a new study suggests they're actually doing the opposite. Parents are a lot less likely to die a premature death than people who don't have kids, a team of Danish researchers has concluded. Childless men...

Is Facebook Better Than Sex?

new study wonders

Oct 29, 2012 12:18 AM CDT

Is Facebook Better Than Sex?

Not tonight, dear, I have to check my computer

(Newser) - It might not be better than sex, but Facebook—along with checking email and surfing the web—is apparently more irresistible, a new study has found. The smartphone-based survey of mostly college-aged respondents tracked their most irresistible desires several times a day. While most reported that sex was a stronger...

Beluga Whale
Tells Diver: Get 'Out'

Oct 22, 2012 6:06 PM CDT

Beluga Whale Tells Diver: Get 'Out'

A whale's song sounds eerily human, study says

(Newser) - It could be the muffled sound of singing in the shower or that sing-songy indecipherable voice from the Muppets' Swedish Chef. But scientists say it was a whale imitating people. In fact, the whale song sounded so eerily human that divers initially mistook it for a human voice. In a...

Five-Second Rule
Pretty Much Bogus

Study Says

Oct 18, 2012 9:59 AM CDT

Five-Second Rule Pretty Much Bogus

Study indicates that germs are faster than that

(Newser) - If you were laboring under the delusion that the "five-second rule" had any basis in scientific fact, well, keep dreaming. Germs latch onto food a lot faster than that, according to a new San Diego State University study co-funded by the cleanly folks at Clorox. Researchers dropped baby carrots...

'Awe Therapy'
Can Ease Our
Hurried Minds

study says

Jul 22, 2012 3:15 PM CDT

'Awe Therapy' Can Ease Our Hurried Minds

The Northern Lights or Grand Canyon can 'make us nicer'

(Newser) - Awwwesome. Say it enough, and your health improves—at least according to those who believe in "awe therapy." Researchers at Stanford University say that people who have "awesome" experiences, like seeing the Grand Canyon or the Northern Lights, get fixed on the present moment and feel time...

First Americans Arrived Via Land Bridge in 3 Waves

DNA STUDY

Jul 12, 2012 7:48 AM CDT

First Americans Arrived Via Land Bridge in 3 Waves

But those waves may have intermingled

(Newser) - The Americas weren't initially populated in one sweeping migration across the land bridge from Siberia, but in three distinct waves, according to a new DNA study. By comparing genetic markers on 52 modern day Native American populations and 17 Siberian ones, they've concluded that while the Americas were...

What Makes Music Scary?

Jun 13, 2012 4:54 PM CDT

What Makes Music Scary?

An evolutionary biologist thinks it's nonlinear noises

(Newser) - Why exactly does the Jaws theme send a chill down our spine? What makes Darth Vader's entrance music so unsettling? In short, why does certain music freak us out? Evolutionary biologist Daniel Blumstein thinks he has the answer. Blumstein hit on the idea while observing baby marmots, who would...

It's Never Too Late
to Quit Smoking

new study

Jun 12, 2012 10:01 AM CDT

It's Never Too Late to Quit Smoking

Even those over 60 saw risk of death reduced

(Newser) - If you're a decades-long smoker who has ever thought, "Well, no use quitting after all this time, the damage has been done," a new study is here to tell you you're wrong. Experts from the Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, examined 17 smoking studies covering...

Men Have More Bacteria
in Their Offices: Study

Jun 1, 2012 11:11 AM CDT

Men Have More Bacteria in Their Offices: Study

Though it could just be because they're bigger

(Newser) - If you're a guy, chances are your office is swarming with microbial coworkers. OK, it's actually probably true for women as well, but a new study has found that on average, men have 10% to 20% more bacteria in their offices, the New York Times reports. "It...