“All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.” ShouldMatterShowsStudyWasteWorkersIncomeShopsHouseholdUnnecessaryEmployedSalaryPaychecksExpendituresPublic SectorBudgeting Author:Mark Skousen
“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.” StoriesShowsSeemsBeliefEasyFictionStudyShapesIntellectualEvidenceArgumentMovedCriticalNonfictionSkepticalShields Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .” ShowsLyingStrongStudyRecordsDiseasePatientTrackCancerBonesJointsTissuesTrack RecordChemotherapyLeukemia Author:John Diamond
“We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.” ShowsPayStudyChildhoodRight NowDollarsEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood Education Author:Tim Kaine
“The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.” MindShowsLanguageRaceChristianityStudyElementsUniversalClimateTheologyTraditionalLimitationZoneSignificanceBrotherhoodGlobesLiberatingTranscendentLatitudeLatitude And Longitude Author:Amos Bronson Alcott
“Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.” WritingMindHumansFactsStoriesShowsSeemsAbleLastsValuesBeliefResultsAttitudeFictionStudyPsychologyEffectsSeriousEvidenceArgumentDecadesHuman MindPersuasive Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.” BookRealShowsAmericaWealthStudyInfluenceOffersAchievementEvidenceDemocraticCarefulInequalitySupposed To BeAssociationAntidoteScholarshipChorusProdigiousReal Knowledge Author:Robert Kuttner
“At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.” IfsThinkingFeelsHas BeensStatesShowsGrowsWalksLevelsStudyEffectsExerciseActivityStressWineMedicineIllPsychologicalSwimMechanismReverseRatsStressedResearchersDonutsStressed Out Author:John Ratey
“Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.” ShouldShowsTogetherStudyStudentsBecomingShould HaveMathematicsMathExperts Author:Jay Leno
“A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?” IfsShowsNationsStudyStudentsBecomingChemistryTrendsLabsIlliterateBlowing Up Author:Jay Leno
“The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.” ShowsMightConsciousnessStudyComplexesSakeNervousOrgansDistributionNervous SystemSteering Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.” ShowsOrderDifferencesEffortStudyProduceApproachStructureAverageFasterDesignerMagnitude Author:Fred Brooks
“Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.” ShouldShowsAttentionBrainStudyFocusStrongerChosenPay AttentionWorkoutRefocus Author:Daniel Goleman
“The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.” IfsGivingChildrenShowsRoomsStudyMonthsEmpathyCapacityBunchClimbsPensAltruismCushionsYoungest Child Author:Alison Gopnik