Vaguely interesting (July 30)

(1)  “Multiple laboratories (k = 23, total N = 2,141) conducted replications of a standardized ego-depletion protocol …. [T]he size of the ego-depletion effect was small with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) that encompassed zero (d = 0.04, 95% CI [–0.07, 0.15].”

(2)  “Analysis revealed that in many countries—including the U.S., the U.K., and Japan—the trend of steadily increasing height has either slowed substantially or plateaued altogether.”

(3)  “Not many Arabs sympathize with the Islamic State. The percent agreeing with the Islamic State’s goals range from 0.4 percent in Jordan to 6.4 percent in the Palestinian territories.”

(4)  “By reporting on only the radically novel, the press can feed a popular illusion that the world is more terrible than it actually is.”

(5)  “But while churchgoing Republicans were particularly skeptical of Trump during the primaries, they are firmly in his corner now that the general election campaign is underway.”