7 non-obvious statistical relationships that are scientifically confirmed
Miscellaneous / / May 15, 2023
How does the cost of a wedding relate to the length of the marriage, weight to smell sensitivity, and personal charm to salary.
1. The more the CEO earns, the worse the company performs.
Statisticians from the University of Utah say that when CEOs increase their salaries, their company's economic performance deteriorates over the next three years. Were collected data 1,500 large American companies, and everywhere this dependence was observed.
Later research rechecked specialists of the transnational analytical corporation MSCI - and confirmed the results. According to their calculations, every $100 invested in companies with the highest paid executives yields an average of up to $265 over 10 years. The same amount invested in firms with the lowest paid directors rises to $367.
If you don’t believe me, look at how things are with the same Amazon or Disney. CEO salaries are exorbitant there, and stocks have been falling and falling.
The reasons for this are not clear. Perhaps executives with massive financial appetites are less likely to get things done and spend more time, sailing on diamond-studded yachts and swimming in pools of black caviar, while the company lives its life. But the analysts did not specify this.
2. The more expensive the wedding, the higher the chance of divorce
There are people who manage to get married just by looking at the registry office on the way from the cafe to the cinema. There are also those who take wedding loans, which are then paid for years, and order limousines with gold seats and a bridesmaid dress, the cost of which is equivalent to the GDP of a couple of small African states.
And science has proven that Type 2 couples break up more often. Economics professors Andrew Francis-Tan and Hugo Mialon collected data on 3,000 weddings in the United States and found that the duration of a marriage is inversely related to the cost of the ceremony.
Eg, likelihood of divorce those whose wedding cost $20,000 was 1.6 times higher than the couples who spent less than $1,000 on their wedding.
The same goes for wedding rings. Buyers of expensive diamond trinkets are 1.3 times more likely to get divorced soon than those who prefer simple jewelry without stones.
In general, don't spend too much on weddings and rings. It's science, there's nothing you can do about it.
3. The more believable a child lies, the more successful he will become in adulthood.
It would seem that lying is not good. And even more bad when small children lie your parents. But scientists discoveredthat toddlers who ingeniously deceive as children tend to succeed in adulthood. And those who do it little and uncertainly, do not differ in special achievements.
According to statistics, by the way, up to 90% of four-year-olds have at least once tried deceive parents. And by the age of 12, almost all children begin to lie, regardless of religious beliefs or upbringing. The difference is how well they do it.
Almost all children lie. But those with better cognitive abilities do it better and cover their tracks. Grow up and become bankers.
Dr. Kang Lee
Director of the Children's Research Institute at the University of Toronto
It turns out for the ability to deceive answer areas of the brain that are also used for logical reasoning and thinking higher order.
So if your offspring lied to you and you figured out the deception - do not punish him, but tell him to try better next time. You look, he will make a career or become a politician.
4. The nicer you are, the lower your salary
Do you think being a pleasant, compassionate, friendly and always helpful person is a good thing? WITH moral From a financial point of view, maybe yes, but certainly not from a financial point of view.
Economists from the University of Bamberg held statistical study. They found that employees who tend to make many friends are good at listening to others and are good at work in a team (they were described as "nice" by others) earn less than those who consider "unpleasant». Later to the same conclusions came statistics from the Mendoza College of Business and Cornell University.
Scientists believethat people in whose character there are features of the so-called dark triad - narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, it is easier to build a career and achieve high salaries. They are more self-centered, competitive, and don't let their empathy get in the way.
5. The more you want to go to the toilet, the less you believe in human free will.
Do you believe in being in control of your own life? Or, on the contrary, do you adhere to the concept of determinism and believe that all events in a person’s life are predetermined in advance and nothing depends on you?
If you choose the latter option, perhaps you should look up from the screen and finally go to the toilet - it’s bad to endure for a long time.
Researchers Michael Ent and Roy Baumeister of the University of Florida carried out questioning to understand how the philosophical views of a person correlate with the state of his body. They asked their subjects about their life principles, and then additionally found out how the subjects feel: whether they feel hungry or thirsty, whether they want to use the toilet or sleep.
AND it turned outthat people who want to go to the toilet, most often believed that the human will cannot influence the future and all situations in the world are predetermined. Those who came to the survey with an empty bladder confidently called themselves the masters of their own destiny and believed that it was their decisions that changed the further course of events.
Conclusion? Before you give up and give up trying to change your life for the better, go to the toilet.
6. The more people die, the less the survivors care
Joseph Stalin is credited with the aphorism: "The death of one person is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." Actually he didn't say that - the phrase belongs to the German journalist Kurt Tucholsky. She was printed in 1925 in the newspaper Vossische Zeitung.
But in any case, this expression fully reflects the real structure of our world. Psychologists Paul Slovic and Daniel Westfjall described a phenomenon they called "psychological numbness".
Scientists claim that the human mind is not able to perceive large numbers when transmitting emotions. Therefore, when we hear that one person or several people have died, we are sincerely upset. But the death of a large number of people does not make us sad.
Therefore, the death of stars and celebrities arouses more sympathy among the public than the deaths of millions from wars and epidemics - a person is simply not capable of representing such large numbers.
Another group of researchers from Sweden decided check Slovic data. Scientists showed the participants in the experiment photographs of one or two sick children and asked them to donate some money for charity.
As a result, it turned out that people pitied one child more, and they were more willing to sacrifice to him. Such is the unfair mathematics.
7. The higher your weight, the worse your sense of smell
It would seem, how does excess weight correlate with the ability to capture odors? But scientists at the University of Otago in New Zealand discovered: if a person subtly feels aromas, it is highly likely that he will be the owner of a slender figure. Conversely, people who are diagnosed with obesity have an extremely poor grasp of smells.
Dr. Mei Peng, who conducted the study, put forward the hypothesis that it is not obesity that leads to a bad sense of smell, but on the contrary: the inability to smell aromas properly paves the way for weight gain. People who have a poor sense of smell are more likely to prefer fast food and unhealthy food generously flavored with spices.
Moreover, Pang's observations showedthat those who underwent surgery to remove the stomach improve their sense of smell. Scientists believe that the nervous system of the stomach and intestines can somehow be connected with the perception of smells, but they do not yet understand exactly how.
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