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In a new German study, higher-IQ people are better at judging the intelligence of others. Participants in this study watched short videos of 50 people reading a weather report and explaining the concept of "symmetry." In addition to IQ, raters' emotional perception and life satisfaction were positively correlated with the ability to judge others' intelligence. Negative affect was negatively correlated with the ability to judge intellgence. The best cues of intelligence were the target's articulation and the content of their speech (i.e., how sophisticated, accurate, insightful, or elaborate the speaker was). The correlations aren't very strong (all <= |.23|), but given how short the videos were, this is pretty impressive. It is likely that in-person interaction for a longer time period would yield better estimates of IQ. This study is consistent with evolutionary theories that suggest that signaling one's own intelligence and identifying those signals is advantageous. It also suggests that social-emotional awareness is a valuable skill. Finally, this study shows that "it takes one to know one." Read the full open access study here: doi.org/10.1016/j.inte…


If you can't afford to pay your staff a living wage you shouldn't be in business.

This country has gone so backwards that unfuckable immigrants are successfully reverse MeTooing blonde White women



there are 1000 supply chain companies to be reinvented that no one has attempted in america in the last decade







The Greens will put workers in control. ft.com/content/431a16…



🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is booed by Jewish people as he arrives near the Golders Green terror attack scene 🎥 Paul Brand



In Stockholm, when you turn 18, your parents honour the occasion by putting your name on the waiting list for a flat. If they are quick, you might enjoy the privilege of picking up the keys to your new flat on your 30th birthday – 12 years later. If they are slow, you could still be waiting in your 40s. The waiting lists are so long that some housing cooperatives allow parents to pay to register their children from birth. Indeed, there are 15,000 children between the ages of 0-10 on the waiting list for a single housing cooperative in Stockholm. In my latest piece for @ArguablyMag, I explore why rent controls tend to backfire. As the UK Government battles populist policies left and right, they should hold their nerve and stick to economic logic. There are far better ways to help households with the cost of living. Like protectionist tariffs or printing one’s way out of inflation, rent freezes are a policy that ought to be confined to history’s economic dustbin. 🌉 In San Francisco, rent controls reduced rental housing supply by 15%, and actually increased rents overall. 👑 In Catalonia, rent controls made the cheapest properties more expensive. 🥨 In Berlin, housing supply and labour mobility fell – workers moved to Potsdam, further from their jobs. 🦞 In Massachusetts, controls reduced rental supply and housing quality deteriorated. When prices are fixed below the market price, supply falls: landlords and housing developers take properties off the market, and new homes may not get built at all. This exacerbates the problem, creating longer and longer queues. Over the next few years, Labour will receive many invitations to entertain populist policies that don’t work, and will not deliver for British people. We must focus on building the homes, and the economic foundations, that Britain sorely needs. arguably.uk/p/why-a-rent-f…






🚨NEWS: Rachel Reeves doesn't understand that landlords have mortgages to pay, and that rates have increased due to the Iran War.







