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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance. Researchers from the University of Waterloo found employees often kept working…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vaitsa Giannoul, a social scientist with European University Cyprus, has looked into the question of which group or groups of people tend to overestimate their own level of intelligence. The study is published in the journal Brain and Behavior. Giannoul begins by noting that intelligence in humans…

Research shows that there are differences between perceptions and reality when it comes to many dieters eating habits. People trying to lose weight tended to overestimate how healthy their diet was, and their self-perceptions of how much their diet improved during the study were often inaccurate.According to a new study, adults who were making lifestyle changes to lose weight tended to overestimate how healthy their diet was.Additionally, self-perceptions of how much their diet improved over the course of the 12- month…

7 October9am Friday morning is usually the time I’m most peak-energy because I’m either looking forward to the weekend or we’ve got a big weekend of gigs ahead. If I get to the studio a bit before Matt , I have a quick dig around on Spotify or Bandcamp to check the latest releases and see what I’m feeling this week. In recent years, it’s become the easiest way to look for music, especially since three of my local record stores have closed down. I tend to let the algorithm start me off and go down a little wormhole. Today,…

Edouard Harris on AI safety and the risks that come with advanced AIAPPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | OTHERSEditor’s note: The TDS Podcast is hosted by Jeremie Harris, who is the co-founder of Gladstone, an AI safety startup. Every week, Jeremie chats with researchers and business leaders at the forefront of the field to unpack the most pressing questions around data science, machine learning, and AI.Progress in AI has been accelerating dramatically in recent years, and even months. It seems like every other day, there’s a new,…

Spending totals indicate mean expenses, and are rounded to the nearest Canadian dollar amount. Credit: Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Howard et al., 2022 When asked to estimate how much money they would spend in the future, people underpredicted the total amount by more than C$400 per month. However, when prompted to think about unexpected spending in addition to typical expenses, people made much more accurate…

Beta software often sends people running from fear of having to deal with bugs and issues that get in the way of their day-to-day life. And that’s normal, because in this day and age when everyone wants their computers and mobile devices to “just work” (a saying Apple made famous a long time back), not many are interested in giving beta software a try. That is perhaps why Samsung doesn’t do worldwide testing of new versions of Android and One UI, especially for all the devices except its latest flagships, and makes do…

Most studies of autism consistently enroll small numbers of female subjects or exclude them altogether, according to a new study from MIT.A commonly used screening test creates a gender gap that may hinder autism diagnosis and treatment for women and girls.Researchers who study autism have made an effort to include more women and girls in their studies in recent years. However, despite these efforts, a new study from <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Charities following widely accepted norms for nonprofit financial management generally perform worse than those embracing other approaches. That's the main—and perhaps surprising—finding of a new study that I conducted with Thad Calabrese, a fellow nonprofit management scholar. …

Brian Kramer, age 21, said he moved to Montgomery County, Md., when he was 13 years old, after being homeless for a few months. He plans to live and work in the county in the future, in part because the place offers “a sense of stability.” Mr. Kramer’s plans to remain close to home would fit the pattern identified in a research paper released Monday from the Census Bureau in collaboration with Harvard University. The paper found 80% of young adults at age 26 had moved less than 100 miles…