I was thinking about this: «Do larger incomes make people happier?»

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🎓 Educational attainment also independently predicted better mental health.
But the highest risk was for men who were low in both cognition and education.
This group faced the highest probability of adult psychiatric diagnoses.

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🧠 Higher cognitive ability at age 18 predicted lower risk of all psychiatric disorders at ages 36–40—especially substance abuse.
✅ This held even when comparing brothers raised in the same family.

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New study: How do adolescent cognitive ability and education predict adult mental disorders?
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Using Norwegian register data (N = 272,351 men) of GP diagnoses and military assessed cognitive abilities.
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I spend a lot of time teaching non-scientists basic statistical concepts 📊. Effect size is especially hard to explain—PDFs, histograms, box plots, violin plots, and so on just don’t cut it. We need a new approach. Here’s one that requires minimal prior knowledge to understand.

I can't belive how good the new O3 models are from OpenAI 😱. All the talk about AI stagnation feels completely misplaced.

Two perspectives on cocaine use among young adult in Norway.

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