Sentences with phrase «studies by people»

We have people on this blog pointing to studies by people like Purkey and Johnson in which sweeping assertions of abyssal temperatures are made.

They will cite crappy studies by people like Ank de Jonge who have sliced and diced the data in a thousand ways in a fruitless effort to pretend that homebirth is safe.

That, of course, explains the enthusiastic welcome given to such studies by some people.

I was actually giving you the benefit of the doubt when I assumed you didn't understand the nature of the discussion — because the alternative of course would be to discuss a lot of earnest scholarship and study by people gay and straight alike as mere rationalization.

I think God knew this, and so provided us with a book that could be read and studied by people of all cultures throughout history (this is one of my presuppositions).

The ground beetle fauna in the Northeast is pretty well studied by people who are well - known entomologists — as far as entomologists go, says Kip Will, a graduate student at Cornell.

However, heart disease has been described and studied by people...

The atmosphere of school choice in Wisconsin is the subject of study by people on many sides of the education reform debate in this country.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

Indeed, a 2013 study by the Investment Company Institute found that three in four people under age 35 say they are not willing to take «above - average or substantial» investment risks.

A joint study by AOL and Nielsen found that people spend more than 50 percent of their time online with content and an additional 30 percent of their time on social channels where content can be shared.

Each of the 15 regions of the genome identified by the study «might shift your chances of being a morning person by between 5 and 25 percent,» study co-author David Hinds told The Verge.

The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

But a new study from consumer lender Earnest shows that the vast majority of those 4 million people aren't making very much money by working on any of the major gig economy platforms.

One of the most exciting things about studying Musk and other breakthrough innovators is that it reveals that even though these people often have special, difficult - to - imitate abilities or traits, the mechanisms by which these abilities and traits lead to innovation are often something we can tap ourselves.

A new study prepared by my company, Intuit, in partnership with Emergent Research projects that 9.2 million people will be working on - demand jobs by 2021.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

(YouTube won't disclose how many ads are viewed the whole way through, but a study conducted by research firm MetrixLab found that 94 % of people skip pre-roll ads.)

There's even a small study coauthored by Holmes and published in an online journal that compares Theranos test results with traditional tests favorably, though it looks only at results for one characteristic of blood among six people.

A new study from University College London and Oxford University diverges from the famous Yale University study from the 1970s by psychologist Stanley Milgram who found that most people would obey direct orders to send what appeared to be increasingly painful shocks to an unseen stranger.

Not so simple, according to a study by McKinsey & Co. that finds some jobs will be eliminated, others created, and up 375 million people may need to switch occupations.

«In everyday interactions with significant others, people often assume that momentary distractions by their cell phones are not a big deal,» another researcher involved in the study, Meredith David, said.

Other studies by Kross suggest that, when people use their first names, they're more likely to see stressful situations (like public speaking) as challenging, rather than threatening.

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

By age 61, the majority of people say they are free to choose where they most want to live, according to a study from Merrill Lynch.

But the photos below, produced using color transparencies taken by various photographers between 1939 and 1941 and compiled by the Library of Congress, show the period and the people who endured it in vivid color — offering a new way to look at one of America's most studied historical eras.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

He recalled a 2010 study by Princeton behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman finding that, while people did not feel happier on a daily basis as their income rose above $ 75,000, they were decidedly unhappier the less they earned below $ 75,000.

The London - based Centre for Policy Studies identified nearly 1,000 SuperEntrepreneurs from 53 countries by analyzing Forbes» list of the world's richest people from 1996 to 2010.

«Their study, published in 2010, posits that a person's preference for a given color can be determined by averaging out how much that person likes all of the objects they associate with that color.

According to studies conducted by Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University, «people who frequently played video games were more likely to report lucid dreams, observer dreams where they viewed themselves from outside their bodies, and dream control that allowed people to actively influence or change their dream worlds — qualities suggestive of watching or controlling the action of a video - game character.»

Mojave Aerospace quotes a study commissioned by Virgin indicating that there are 15,000 people in the United States alone who would shell out more than $ 100,000 for a ticket to space.

A 2010 study by professors from Insead, the Kellogg School of Management, and Tel Aviv University found that people who have spent extended time abroad tend to be better, more creative problem solvers.

Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.

An April study of more than 3,300 people by the National Research Center for the Working Environment discovered that people subjected to bullying in the workplace were more likely to report sleeping difficulties.

In fact, 40 % of retirees underestimate life expectancy of people their age by at least five years, according to a study by the Society of Actuaries.

People form many of their financial habits by seven years old, a 2013 University of Cambridge study found.

A study published by Carnegie Mellon University found that people with supportive spouses are «more likely to give themselves the chance to succeed.»

Lots of people are talking about a study put out this morning by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives about how the average Canadian CEO will earn as much by lunchtime today as the average Canadian does in a year.

According to the study, being slightly more difficult to get along with may come with monetary benefits, but people who are agreeable by nature tend to have stronger friendships, are liked more by their peers and are more satisfied with life in general.

A study done by the American Psychological Association suggests that»... the attractiveness of a superior person is enhanced if he commits a clumsy blunder; the same blunder tends to decrease the attractiveness of a mediocre person.

People in the study who described themselves as highly competitive were actually more motivated to improve by personal insults than by constructive feedback.

According to studies conducted by researchers in the U.K. and Turkey, something as simple as the suit a man wears can have a direct impact on how people view his character.

According to a new study by research provider Custom Products, the number of crimes committed by people over 60 is soaring, with 35 % of arrests for shop - lifting involving the retiree demographic, up from 20 % in 2001.

A recent study by two assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.

But if you look closer, you'll see I'm always trying to hack culture by studying consumer activity and understanding where, why, and how people buy and sell.

A recent study by Blue Jeans Network, a cloud - based video conferencing company, found that 91 percent of business professionals have never seen the people they regularly work with, whether they are employees, coworkers or customers.

According to the most thorough study on goal setting to date, by psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham, very specific and challenging goals such as «Create three logo variations by the end of the day» push people to work harder than nonspecific goals like «Work on logo variations.»