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TIL: hunter-gatherers and semi-natural selection in agriculture
1. Farming leads to reallocation of person's time from leisure to work (mostly for women).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6
2. People seem to have an unconscious bias toward larger seeds, even when it doesn't translate into larger crops, e.g. in vegetables. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evl3.6
I wonder whether this explains why bigger pills have greater placebo effects.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6
2. People seem to have an unconscious bias toward larger seeds, even when it doesn't translate into larger crops, e.g. in vegetables. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evl3.6
I wonder whether this explains why bigger pills have greater placebo effects.
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а синие таблетки более эффективны, как успокаивающие (в том числе, плацебо).
но только не в Италии, где синий - цвет футбольной команды...
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