News tagged with popularity rankings
'Most Popular' Status Affects What People Eat, Study Finds
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that diners are at least 13 percent more likely to order a dish if they know it is among a restaurant’s most popular.
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Be your best friend if you'll be mine: Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 03, 2009 |
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University of Pennsylvania psychologists studying the cognitive mechanisms behind human friendship have determined that how you rank your best friends is closely related to how you think your friends rank you. The results ...
NYU anthropologist to examine how human rights rankings are created
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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New York University Anthropology Professor Sally Engle Merry will examine how rankings of human rights are created under a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The resulting research is designed to help ...
Study: Users mistakenly trust higher positioned results in Google searches
Aug 21, 2007 |
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An eye tracking experiment published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication revealed that college student internet users have an inherent trust in Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance to the ...
Recent 'momentum' influences choices of baby names, psychology professors find
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How do people choose a name for their child? Researchers have long noted that the overall popularity of a name exerts a strong influence on people's preferences -- more popular names, such ...
TripAdvisor warns of hotels posting fake reviews
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The hotel review may sound too good - citing obscure details like the type of faucets - or perhaps one stands out as the only negative rating of an otherwise popular location.
Human preference for other species could determine whether they survive
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Jan 29, 2007 |
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As humans exert ever-greater influence on the Earth, their preferences will play a substantial role in determining which other species survive. New research shows that, in some cases, those preferences could be governed by ...
Why Things Become Unpopular
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Why is everybody suddenly wearing those new sandals and listening to that new band? It's so trendy!" A recent study has investigated this sentiment in order to understand why some cultural ...
South Korea tops in broadband penetration: study
Jun 19, 2009 |
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South Korea, where 95 percent of homes have broadband, Singapore and Taiwan are among the top five countries in terms of access to the high-speed Internet, according to a survey released Thursday.
Where physician completed obstetrical residency may provide quality-of-care indicator
Sep 22, 2009 |
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A ranking of obstetrics and gynecology training programs based on the maternal complication rates of their graduates' patients found these rankings consistent across individual types of complications, suggesting that these ...
Vancouver world's easiest city to live in, Harare worst: poll
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Vancouver is the world's easiest city to live in while Harare is the toughest, a survey said Monday putting Europe and north America at the top while many African and Asian cities struggle behind.
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