Early rise times found to lead to lower grades, poorer attendance
Early class start times are associated with lower grades and poorer attendance, according to a study tracking attendance and grades of university students.
Nature Human Behaviour
Q&A: Using social science to forecast societal change
Pandemic impacts on people everywhere brought a unique opportunity for social scientists to study and forecast changes in society. The Forecasting Collaborative was founded in 2020 by Dr. Igor Grossmann, associate professor ...
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2023
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Children lost one-third of a year's learning to COVID, new study shows
Children's learning progress has slowed substantially during the pandemic, roughly equating to a loss of around 35% of the typical learning in a school year, according to a new study.
Social Sciences
Feb 4, 2023
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Schoolkids lost third of a year's learning to pandemic: study
School-aged students lost more than a third of a year's worth of learning early on in the pandemic and have still not caught up, posing "a real problem for this generation," researchers warned on Monday.
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2023
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Large number of animal skulls found in Neanderthal cave
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across Spain, working with one colleague from Portugal and another from Austria, has discovered a large number of animal skulls placed by Neanderthals in Spanish ...
Urban elites seize most of the benefits of big cities, finds study
Urban inequality in Europe and the United States is so severe that urban elites claim most of the benefits from the agglomeration effects that big cities provide, while large parts of urban populations get little to nothing. ...
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2023
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Study of massive 2020 digital ad campaign to impact US presidential race shows it had little impact
A team of researchers affiliated with a range of institutions in the U.S. and one in Kenya has conducted an analysis of the impact of a massive digital ad campaign run prior to the U.S. presidential election between Joe Biden ...
Anti-Asian discrimination cost Chinese restaurants $7.4 billion during the pandemic's first year, new study finds
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-China fervor stoked consumer discrimination that cost Chinese restaurants $7.4 billion in lost revenue in 2020—losses 18.4 percent greater than at other types of restaurants—according ...
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2023
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Researchers find persistent gender gap among scientific editors
To determine the representation of women among scientific journal editors—key players in the scientific community who have the final say about what papers get published—a team led by NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2023
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Hunter-gatherer social ties spread pottery-making far and wide
Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time through the transmission of social traditions.
Archaeology
Dec 22, 2022
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