Vaguely interesting (Sept 15)

(1) “We can continue doing things the old way which means we will continue to produce noisy, unreplicable research, or we can change for the better. The simplest and most productive thing we can do so is to increase the power of our research. In most cases, this can be achieved simply by increasing the average sample size of our studies.”

(2) “As many as 1 in 5 Americans would be in poverty without Social Security and tax credits for the working poor.”

(3)  “But as with many branches of psychology, wise interventions are taking a battering. A new wave of studies that attempted to replicate the promising experiments have found discouraging results.”

(4)  “The Democratic Party is becoming less white, less religious and better-educated at a faster rate than the country as a whole, while aging at a slower rate.”

(5) “Peer reviewers themselves may view the monument as a place of worship.”