marriage makes you worse?

married tennis

the obvious and probably correct interpretation is that single men feel a benefit in competing, to proving themselves, while married ones do not.

Interesting that the better tennis players seem more likely to get married by this data…

regardless , i imagine the results would be orders of magnitude more significant if it was done on women.

via http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/tennis%20players.pdf

Is there really a housing boom?

most people and media outlets seem to present [this argument]

and it’s cirtainly not bogus, but I think not a really useful perspective…

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yes the prices are going up:

but not in any way that matters:

interest on avg house prices as a portion of gdp/pop

answer= no, there is no real housing boom during the past 10 years.

premise for ww3?

around 13% of the air pollution in north america originated in asia:

 

map

via http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/pollution_measure.html

vaguely interesting, but not surprising

number of sexual partners seems highly correlated to creative activity:

creative sex

via http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/nettle%20and%20clegg%20proceedings%20b.pdf