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Washington University and LSE researchers found the rich-poor gap in resisting misinformation widest among weak readers across 232,901 teens tested by PISA. The finding supports their case for teaching reading to poorer students, though a single 2022 snapshot cannot show that more instruction would close the gap.
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Women in finance teams over three-quarters male rated comfort admitting mistakes 5.46 of 7 to men's 5.94, an LSE-led survey of 1,400-plus UK staff found. The authors tie the gap to informal culture and say their 81%-female sample cannot be readily generalized.
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Scientists who think technology will largely solve climate change are 23% less likely to petition or protest, an LSE survey of over 9,000 researchers found. The answers are self-reported, and they leave open whether optimism drives the inaction or merely accompanies it.
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Wharton researcher Steven Shaw told a New York Fed conference that chatbot users took the AI's answer 80% of the time and felt surer even when it was wrong. For banks, the fix discussed there is deliberate friction, paid for in the speed the tools were bought for.
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ECB board member Isabel Schnabel set out three ways to put central-bank money on-chain, two of which leave the reserves off the ledger. Her slides stop short of picking a model, so builders of tokenized-securities venues have to plan for three different cash legs.
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The headline ratio in UNEP's Hidden Assets assessment leans mostly on the monetised value of lives not cut short. Strip that out and the same 25 measures still return about four dollars per dollar, which is the figure a treasury can bank.
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France's court blocked Macron's ban and advocates who wrote the earlier bills now warn against blanket blocks. What survives is age assurance plus per-surface duties.
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A month after Adam Mosseri promised to take down harassing videos filmed on Meta glasses, Business Insider found dozens still live. Stated policy is not an operating control.
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