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Smart people prejudiced against conservatives
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/who-you-hate-depends-on-how-smart-you-are-study-finds?utm_source=vicefbuk&utm_campaign=global According to their research, this tendency inverted among people of high cognitive ability. In other words, the smarter subjects in their study were likely to be prejudiced against groups considered conventional or conservative—groups perceived to have “high choice” in their associations.” “People dislike people who are different from them,” Brandt and Crawford said in…
World Water and Sanitation, 25 Years Later
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Sexual abuse often happens early in life.
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Salted potato crisps have less salt than average packet of instant noodles
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Living in fear of black magic curses
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