# Studies with obvious results **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 20, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137 "2021-02-20T17:49:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/1 "2021-02-20T17:49:58Z")
Most Teen Bullying Occurs Among Peers Climbing the Social Ladder: > **[Most Teen Bullying Occurs Among Peers Climbing the Social Ladder](https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/most-teen-bullying-occurs-among-peers-climbing-social-ladder)** > > Teens who bully, harass, or otherwise victimize their peers are not always lashing out in reaction to psychological problems or unhealthy home environments, but are often using aggression strategically to climb their school’s social hierarchy, a... ---
**Author:** ![ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ao_fan/32/143_2.png) [@ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ao_fan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/2 "2021-02-20T17:52:01Z")
I got bullied in school by kids who were just assholes. They weren’t in my social circle. that’s not “obvious” to me at all or even true. I’m sure there is bullying of that kind and that kind makes more sense, but this article from what I read of it discounts bullying the easy target which absolutely happens too. ---
**Author:** ![ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ao_fan/32/143_2.png) [@ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ao_fan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/3 "2021-02-20T18:32:37Z")
my dog was a bully. also a wuss. she feared anyone who stood up to her, which included most other dogs, but totally yapped and attacked humans who were terrified of her 7 pounds of pure fury. cats also feared for their lives, even though if they stood up to her, they could probably kill her. SHE WAS THE BEST! ---
**Author:** ![ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ao_fan/32/143_2.png) [@ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ao_fan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/4 "2021-02-20T18:38:54Z")
so like when people say that kids are the biggest victims of this whole stay at home thing, i’m calling bullshit on that. PUBLIC SCHOOL IS A WAR ZONE! I would have LOVED to have at home learning in junior high and been far away from those asswipes. ---
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/5 "2021-08-02T03:36:13Z")
> **[Minimum wage earners can’t afford a two-bedroom rental anywhere, report says](https://www.kold.com/2021/07/28/minimum-wage-earners-cant-afford-two-bedroom-rental-anywhere-report-says/)** > > The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour since 2009. ---
**Author:** ![Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/marcie/32/8789_2.png) [@Marcie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Marcie)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/6 "2021-08-28T20:50:27Z")
[https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2783690](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2783690) Obvious results, except the authors repeatedly call the embiggening of youth “pandemic-related” instead of “pandemic-response-related.” This was in California; would be interesting to see if the results were similar or different somewhere like Florida, South Dakota, or Sweden. ---
**Author:** ![ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ao_fan/32/143_2.png) [@ao\_fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ao_fan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/7 "2021-08-28T21:37:11Z")
I didn’t gain weight during the pandemic. not sure what’s up with all these fatties. eat less and get off your ass! ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/8 "2021-09-09T12:12:03Z")
> **[Trolls Will Be Trolls, Online and Offline, Reports New Study](https://reason.com/2021/09/08/trolls-will-be-trolls-online-and-offline-reports-new-study/?utm_medium=email)** > > If you're a troll online, you are most likely also a troll offline, at least with respect to political discussions,… > If you’re a troll online, you are most likely also a troll offline, at least with respect to political discussions, reports [new research](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/psychology-of-online-political-hostility-a-comprehensive-crossnational-test-of-the-mismatch-hypothesis/C721597EEB77CC8F494710ED631916E4) published in the _American Political Science Review_ . In their study, Aarhus University researchers Alexander Bor and Michael Bang Petersen investigate what they call the “mismatch hypothesis.” Do mismatches between human psychology, evolved to navigate life in small social groups, and novel features of online environments, such as anonymity, rapid text-based responses, combined with the absence of moderating face-to-face social cues, change behavior for the worse in impersonal online political discussions? > > No, conclude the authors. “Instead, hostile political discussions are the result of status-driven individuals who are drawn to politics and are equally hostile both online and offline,” they report. > … > If these results stand up, the good news is that the Internet does not tempt normal people to become more vicious in political arguments, but the bad news is that it makes the obnoxious views of intractably hostile posters more visible. ---
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/9 "2021-09-09T12:14:30Z")
If academia is so competitive why does stuff like this get funded where do the good ppl go ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/10 "2021-09-09T12:18:56Z")
They make more money doing marketing research. ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/11 "2021-09-09T13:14:37Z")
The last paragraph quoted (or, at least the first part of it), is actually an interesting and reassuring result to me. ---
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/12 "2021-10-21T19:28:52Z")
> **[Tax cheat schemes cost governments billions](https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58984813)** > > Major tax evasion and avoidance schemes have deprived countries of £127bn, research shows. ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/13 "2021-10-21T21:18:28Z")
🙄 ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/14 "2021-10-21T21:48:01Z")
> [@](#): > > …tax evasion and avoidance schemes have deprived… This irritates me. There’s nothing wrong with tax avoidance. It’s not illegal; it’s not immoral. Tax evasion is a different beast altogether. Hard for me to take it seriously when they conflate the two. I will say that if you are rich & powerful enough to lobby for lobby for loopholes so that you can take advantage of them, that’s in a different category IMO. The problem there isn’t tax avoidance, it’s having politicians in your pocket. ---
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/15 "2021-12-08T21:03:23Z")
Study shows that doubling the minimum wage increases earnings [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176521004018](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176521004018) ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/16 "2021-12-08T21:07:13Z")
TLDR - can you boil it down for me here? ---
**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/17 "2022-01-21T01:59:19Z")
> **[The better you are at math, the more money seems to influence your satisfaction](https://theconversation.com/the-better-you-are-at-math-the-more-money-seems-to-influence-your-satisfaction-173720)** > > Compared to people who aren’t as good at math, people who are better at math are more happy when they have high incomes and less happy when they have lower incomes. ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/18 "2022-01-21T13:36:10Z")
TIL I am terrible at math. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/19 "2022-01-21T16:06:56Z")
alternately, imagine how dissatisfied you’d be without all those math skillz? ---
**Author:** ![colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/colonelsmoothie/32/136_2.png) [@colonelsmoothie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/colonelsmoothie)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137/20 "2022-07-30T19:58:19Z")
> **[The Richer They Get, the More They Eat](https://spectrum.ieee.org/meat-eater)** > > Meat will stay on the menu, despite all the talk of a shift to veganism [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/studies-with-obvious-results/2137.md?page=2)