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When given a quiz concerning common statistical issues dealt with in psychological research, psychologists on average answered 55% of the questions correctly: https://sci-hub.st/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1993.tb00556.x

"Cello scrotum," false disease, published in the British Medical Journal despite the authors' expecting the reviewers of the paper to realise that this disease was impossible: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7853564.stm

On the power of makeup: youtube.com/watch?v=uS2JhJizn7E - especially ~1:55.

Distributions of "high-math," "high-verbal," and "high-flat" cognitive profiles between men and women among the extraordinarily high-IQ: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/Top1in100001.pdf

Effects of the menstrual cycle on women's mate preferences fail to replicate: psyarxiv.com/7g3xc

Criticism of the handicap principle: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12563

The peacock train does not handicap cursorial locomotor performance: nature.com/articles/srep36512

Peacock plumage is not especially costly either metabolically or aerodynamically: jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/217/18/3237.full.pdf

The sense of beauty in the animal kingdom: https://sci-hub.st/10.1086/711781

Processing fluency and aesthetic pleasure (speculative): https://sci-hub.st/10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3

The Catholic Church, Western Genetics, and Individualism: https://archive.fo/IhiVD

Male intrasexual competition, reduced sexual dimorphism in humans: https://archive.fo/EKT1x

Sexual selection through mate choice does not explain the evolution of art and music: https://archive.fo/6aPnV

Large age-gap relationships are not common in the modern US: www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/families/2017/cps-2017/tabfg3-all.xls

Nor are large age-gap relationships common in most places on Earth: web.archive.org/web/20170524221659/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/worldmarriage/worldmarriagepatterns2000.pdf

Nor were they especially common in the past: populationspast.org/m_smam/1851/#6/53.487/-4.109

Homogamy and hypogamy in the modern context: j4mb.org.uk/2018/10/30/the-decline-of-female-hypergamy-and-rise-hypogamy

Data on education/income homogamy and how it affects income inequality: quillette.com/2019/10/18/rich-like-me-how-assortative-mating-is-driving-income-inequality

"Marrying up" does not seem to have been an overwhelming trend among women even in the past: https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/2092885

Marriage patterns in pre-modern Poland: mega.nz/file/bkdnlISY#qMmnRnh6LpWsiNL_al4fdQwPVGeq4JdapwDdTxaVepg

Hypergamy or lack thereof in the Great Depression: https://sci-hub.st/10.1017/S0022050715000066

Smallpox and lookism in 18th and 19th century Sweden: https://sci-hub.st/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20758008

Poverty and obesity/height: thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30045-8/fulltext

Poverty and insanity: jrf.org.uk/data/physical-and-mental-health

Poverty and social isolation: jrf.org.uk/data/impact-poverty-relationships

Obesity and hiring discrimination: https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100850

Attractiveness and earnings: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/57158/1/657138150.pdf

The height premium: height and income: timothy-judge.com/Height%20paper--JAP%20published.pdf & edition.cnn.com/2007/US/Careers/02/02/cb.tall.people

UK longitudinal study found significant differences in facial attractiveness between high-IQ and low-IQ children: https://archive.fo/2DfN7

Correlates of English ancestry in the modern United States: https://archive.fo/VMMjm