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- Numeracy: The educational gift that keeps on giving?
- Kids show cultural gender bias
- High school students test best with 7 hours of sleep at night
- Controlling parents more likely to have delinquent children
- Tell me how you are, and I know how long you will live
| Numeracy: The educational gift that keeps on giving? Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:33 AM PST Cancer risks. Investment alternatives. Calories. Numbers are everywhere in daily life, and they figure into all sorts of decisions. A new article examines how people who are numerate -- that's like literacy, but for numbers -- understand numbers better and process information differently so that they ultimately make more informed decisions.  |
| Kids show cultural gender bias Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:12 AM PST A recent study examining whether speaking French influenced how children assigned gender to objects yielded some interesting observations. Researchers found some differences between the monolingual English children and the bilingual French-English children they surveyed.  |
| High school students test best with 7 hours of sleep at night Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:05 AM PST New research finds that 16- to 18-year-olds perform better academically when they shave about two hours off what current guidelines prescribe.  |
| Controlling parents more likely to have delinquent children Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:59 AM PST Authoritarian parents whose child-rearing style can be summed up as "it's my way or the highway" are more likely to raise disrespectful, delinquent children who do not see them as legitimate authority figures than authoritative parents who listen to their children and gain their respect and trust, according to new research.  |
| Tell me how you are, and I know how long you will live Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:28 PM PST The way people rate their health determines their probability of survival in the following decades. Researchers have demonstrated that for ratings ranging from "excellent," "good," "fair," and "poor" to "very poor," the risk of mortality increases steadily – independently of such known risk factors as smoking, low education levels or pre-existing diseases.  |
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