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How the war on drunk driving was won
“Two underappreciated ideas stick out from this experience. First, deterrence works: incentives matter to offenders much more than many scholars found initially plausible. Second, the long-run impact that successful criminal-justice interventions have is not primarily in rehabilitation, incapacitation, or even deterrence, but in altering the social norms around acceptable behavior.”
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Why Do People Bully? The Scientific Reasons
“In a recent Ditch the Label study, we spoke to 7,347 people about bullying. We asked respondents to define bullying and then later asked if, based on their own definition, they had ever bullied anybody. 14% of our overall sample, so that’s 1,239 people, said yes. What we then did was something that had never been done on this scale before; we asked them intimate questions about their lives, exploring things like stress and trauma, home lives, relationships and how they feel about themselves.”
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“According to reports from Cointelegraph citing CoinGecko, the total NFT market capitalization stood at just $2.5 billion in December, representing a 72 % collapse from the January peak of $9.2 billion. Weekly NFT sales remained below $70 million, while the number of unique buyers and active sellers dropped sharply, indicating a loss of momentum across the entire ecosystem.” — Analysis Blockchain / Bitcoin World