The Tragedy of the Commons (Part 1 of 4)
STFUTeabaggers, take note.
I reference the Tragedy of the Commons so often, it a fundamental political/economic/psychological/sociological concept that everyone should understand.
We always thought there were only two types of intimate relationships: monogamy and bopping everyone except your husband (or wife). But no! Turns out there are dozens and dozens of them: serial monogamy, polifidelity, soft swinging, involuntary celibacy (aka every 14-year-old boy). The list goes on, and data viz king David McCandless and Laura Sullivan lay ‘em all out in a handy flowchart here.
Gay Sex vs Straight Sex - A chart filled post from OK Cupid based on data from their 3.2 million users. Pictured above: the more red the more gay curious, the more blue the less gay curious.
The data-heads over at OK Cupid are at it again!
Our “moral compass” is in the right temporo-parietal junction of our brains — behind our right ears. Researchers at MIT used two different kinds of strong magnets to interfere with the neurons in the that brain area in 12 volunteers, before giving them a morality test.
After they had…
Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe. In underdeveloped countries, there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is thus a peculiarly modern phenomenon. Why do modern conditions produce atheism?
These maps from Who’s Your City? show the geographic distribution of personality types. Developed by my MPI colleague Kevin Stolarick, they are based on data on hundreds of thousands of people compiled by psychologists Jason Rentfrow at Cambridge University and Sam Gosling at the University of Texas. Open-to-experience people appear to be the most mobile and distributed – look at the clusters around NY and the east coast corridor, southern Florida, Austin, L.A., and the Bay Area and Seattle. They are also the personality type most likely to be creative, innovative ,and entrepreneurial.
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http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/03/15/the-personality-map/
