Insomnia is Keeping Us Awake, and Other News Items
The Duchess of Windsor was wrong: You can be too thin.
Does physician income increase from treating more complex patients? In Denmark, the answer is no. It’s probably no here as well. HT: Jason Shafrin
Size matters: The GDP maximizing penile length is around 13 centimeters. (HT: Greg Mankiw)
It’s surprising that sleep is a problem for so many people.
Does the author of the paper on penile length and GPD have a hypothesis?
This is a silly study, because the data is poor, and any happenstance correlation meaningless. As I’ve told him, Tatu Westling should be nominated for the most worthless economic study of the year.
Maybe Tatu Westling should win the Ig Nobel Prize in Statistics because this research hardly qualifies as economics. In the Discussion section of the paper, he explains various theories and admits none of them hold up. He concludes the paper’s contribution to the literature is identifying the non-linear relationship of GDP and penile length.
I am somewhat of an insomniac, and I have found that the only real solution for insomnia is to face whatever it is that is keeping me up.
Given the levels of stress most Americans experience, it’s not a shock to me that 10% of the population suffers on a regular basis. Frankly, I’m shocked that there are so few people who battle insomnia.