In two preregistered surveys of about 400 people each, ChatGPT's answers to real advice-column dilemmas were judged more balanced, complete, empathetic and helpful than the columnists' own, even at equal length, but most participants still preferred a human to answer their own problems.

Nonprofit hospitals that hired management consultants paid $15.7 million on average, $7.8 billion in total from 2009 to 2023, yet 306 of them showed no significant change in revenue, margins, operations or patient outcomes against 513 matched hospitals.

When a person dressed as Batman boarded a Milan metro car, passengers offered their seat to a seemingly pregnant woman 67% of the time, against 38% without him. Of those who helped while Batman was present, 44% said they had not seen him.

Pooling raw data from 68 studies and more than 10,000 people, researchers found the odds of drifting off-task rose about 6% every minute, so that by the 20th minute people were off-task roughly 49% of the time.

A meta-analysis of 106 student samples tested with Wechsler IQ tests since 1939 finds undergraduates' average IQ has fallen by about 0.2 points a year to roughly 102, close to the population average of 100.

Men who sniffed odorless emotional tears from women retaliated 43.7% less in a provocation game than after sniffing saline. Tears activated four human smell receptors and changed activity in brain areas linking smell and aggression.

Among 347 working adults applying for a simulated retail sales job, those best at faking a personality test scored higher on mental ability (r = .25) and lower on psychopathy (r = -.29), competitiveness and immorality.