On today’s episode of Good on Paper, I talk with the political scientist David Broockman about the limits of using self-interest as a lens for understanding people’s opposition to new development. His ...

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The model allows for a flexible relationship between top earnings and the distribution of earnings capacities in the population, including positive externalities (such as innovation) and negative ...

What key findings have come from positive psychology? Created with Sketch. Important insights have emerged from the field. For example, happiness causes—rather than results from—many positive ...

For example, when two stocks move in the same direction, the correlation coefficient is positive ... formatting to clean up the result. A graphing calculator, such as a TI-84, can also be used ...

A recent study found that smoking an e-cigarette decreased the amount of oxygen being taken in by the lungs, regardless of whether it contained nicotine Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at ...

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If an equation can be rearranged into the form \(y = mx + c\), then its graph will be a straight line. In the above: \(x + y = 3\) can be rearranged as \(y = 3 - x\) (which can be re-written as ...

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